[lbo-talk] dialogue

[Gar Lipow]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/14/AR2010121402330.html
>
> A progressive's answer to Obama
> By Katrina vanden Heuvel
>
> Tuesday, December 14, 2010
>
> ...
>
> I met Obama once - when he was a candidate for president. On learning that I was editor of the Nation, he said to me, "The perfect is the enemy of good." Perhaps he expected me to disagree. I don't.
>

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Don't let the good be
the enemy of the mediocre. Don't let the mediocre be the enemy of the
bad. Don't let the bad be the enemy of the awful. Don't let the awful
be the enemy of the completely disgusting ....