Brad DeLong
>This is a pretty silly comment, the sort of thing one gets from the person
>who's always wise after the fact. ("Now, what you should have said
>was...")
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> --C. G. Estabrook
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>
>On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Brad DeLong wrote:
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>> My view was that Amy Goodman didn't know enough to pin the guy down.
>>
>> For example, Clinton responds to a question about Cuba with: "We were
>> really making headway. And then, they illegally shot down those two
>> planes, and four people died on the planes. And the Congress passed
>> the Helms/Burton bill, so-called. And I don't have flexibility to do
>> much more..." The right thing to do is to say in response: "yeah.
>> Well you *signed* Helms-Burton, buster. You don't have flexibility now
>> because you gave that flexibility away then..."
>>
>> But American political reporters--even the best of them--do not have
>> the depth of policy experience to be able to match someone like
>> Clinton across the board...
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>> Brad DeLong
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