The Redistribution of Honor: Winners and losers in the postwar era

The Weekly Standard ^ | 04/28/03 | Joel Kotkin and Fred Siegel

[Fledermaus]

JFK (1961): "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

Al Sharpton (2001): "We don't owe America anything; America owes us."

Not that I'm complaining, but who knew the Democratic Party could destroy itself in only 40 years?

[Terp]

bumperoo

[SendShaqtoIraq]

"At Columbia University, Hamid Dabashi, Kevorkian professor of Iranian studies, told the participants in a teach-in/antiwar rally that they were the "'A' students, who think for themselves," in contrast to the "'C' students with their stupid fingers on the trigger."

This is discrimination. Where's the stinking ACLU when they're really needed and wanted?

[Miss Marple]

I believe this is a nice summary of "collateral benefits."

[Tom Bombadil]

The left, on the losing side of every major foreign policy debate of the past quarter century, is increasingly retreating into snobbery and conspiracy theories about neocon plots.

I finally "get" it. "Neocon" stands for conservatives who have power......I have been wondering about this for some time now and am just now understanding what the term is meant to convey when used by the left.

In postmodernism there is not right or wrong, only power......It must gall these people to see conservatives with power.

[esopman]

Thank you very much for posting this. It is an extraordinarily good, surprisingly succinct statement of the problems with the elites in our fair republic. Let's keep it bumped!

[Carolinamom]

The real meaning of NEOCON, as explained on the Brit Hume show, is a liberal who has switched to being a conservative. Many journalists use it as a pejorative.