[shrinkermd]

I enjoy Rush but a great deal of his claim to fame is his certainty. He believes a few basic things and decides all things by this ideological certainty. Isiah Berlin would term Rush a "hedgehog" in the sense he sticks to his ideology and little or nothing else.

On the other hand the President is more of a "Fox." Isiah Berlin described these people as flexible, reflective and prone to self criticism.

Of course people vary on the Fox/Hedgehog continuum and may change from one to the other over time.

Hedgehogs are like Churchill. When they succeed they do so memorably. Foxes are more flexible according to the circumstances they find and Eisenhower would be an example.

It is easy to pick apart a Fox but it is hard to run the world on the limited ideology of hedgehogs.

[TFine80]

This is a fascinating discussion from Rush.