[lbo-talk] Bush and Foucault

[Miles Jackson]

Dennis Claxton wrote:
>  From Mark Danner's commencement address to the 
> Berkeley Department of Rhetoric:
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> But this is all old hat to you, graduates of the 
> Rhetoric Department of 2007, the line of thinking 
> you imbibe with your daily study, for it is 
> present in striking fashion in Foucault and many 
> other intellectual titans of these last decades ­ 
> though even they might have been nonplussed to 
> find it so crisply expressed by a finely tailored 
> man sitting in the White House. Though we in the 
> "reality-based community" may just now be 
> discovering it, you have known for years the 
> presiding truth of our age, which is that the 
> object has become subject, and we have a 
> fanatical follower of Foucault in the Oval 
> Office. Graduates, let me say it plainly and 
> incontrovertibly: George W. Bush is the first rhetoric-major president.
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>   
Even as a joke, this is pretty pathetic.  This guy obviously hasn't read 
or understood a page of Foucault's work.

Miles