>--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> [what's gotten into this guy?]
>>
>
>At the beginning of reading this, I thought it was
>good but I did not understand why Doug would ask the
>above question. Then, I got to the part where he
>quoted Habermas and I thought "what's gotten into this
>guy?".
>
>Ok. What's gotten into him? Can somebody spike the
>water supply in Washington DC with it?
I think he's always been some sort of intellectual, or at least thought himself to be one. I was told by a friend of mine who used to be a Congressional staffer that Gore insisted on writing his enviro book all by himself, with no help from his staff. Still, it's not often you see an establishment figure like Gore criticizing the ideological state apparatus like this. It may be weak tea for us, but this guy is American political royalty. Weird.
Doug