[lbo-talk] Jimmy Carter on North Korea

[Wojtek S]

[WS:]  He does not face election or re-election, and that makes all
the difference in the.  It is the party competition and electioneering
that turns rational people into clowns.  Being a clown is what wins
elections.

Wojtek

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> This is what a rational politician sounds like:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/opinion/16carter.html
>
> What a measure of how crazy our public discourse is that he is almost
> universally treated as if he were a clown, and the clowns are treated as if
> they were statesmen.
>
> Our reality really is beyond parody.
>
> Michael
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