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Kinder, Gentler We're Not
WashPost ^
| Sunday, May 9, 2004
| By George F. Will
Posted on 05/09/2004 5:26:42 AM PDT by Archangelsk
Michael Barone, America's foremost political analyst, wonders why America produces so many incompetent 18-year-olds but remarkably competent 30-year-olds. The answer is in his new book, "Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future." It illuminates the two sensibilities that sustain today's party rivalry.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: bookreview; bushelder; bushjunior; clinton; georgefwill; hardamerica; michaelbarone; softamerica; will
Read carefully and infer. This is effeminate Will's back handed slap at Bush Elder, grudging acceptance of Clinton, and ambivalence over Bush Junior. (The inference is found in the dates he quoted).
To: Archangelsk
I saw Mr Barone on FNC talking about his book and it looks very interesting.
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posted on
05/09/2004 5:37:32 AM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(06/07/04 - 1000 days since 09/11/01)
To: Archangelsk
It's necessary to register to get to this story.
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posted on
05/09/2004 6:01:43 AM PDT
by
Sabatier
To: Sabatier
Go www.bugmenot.com and you can get a generic password for any site.
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posted on
05/09/2004 6:09:01 AM PDT
by
lainde
(Heads up...We're coming and we've got tongue blades!!)
To: lainde
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posted on
05/09/2004 6:21:55 AM PDT
by
Zeppo
To: Zeppo
Ive stopped paying any attentino at all to Will.
He is an inside the beltway elitist conservative (yes, they exist) who's audience is the cocktail circut in DC and who played no role what so ever for the ascendency of conservatism in the 1970s, 1980s and the 1994 Gingrich Revolution. Much as I dislike Buchanan, he was much more influential in the conservative movement back in the 1970s.
To: Archangelsk
I have to disagree. Will's article is largely a summation of the high points of Barone's line of argument. The dates quoted are largely indicative of specific actions or occurrences (deregulation, Sputnik, etc.). In particular, this sentence from the last paragraph would also seem to be at odds with your characterization of Will's article:
Barone believes that promotion of competition and accountability -- hardness -- is the shared theme of President Bush's policies of educational standards, individual health accounts, Social Security investment accounts and lower tax rates to increase self-reliance in the marketplace.
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posted on
05/09/2004 6:30:49 AM PDT
by
Zeppo
To: Zeppo
Seems to me there are a lot of very competent 18 year olds doing hard work well in Iraq today.
I did not read the article. I really enjoy Michael Barone, though.
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