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The Imperial City And The World
Comment says
re Sid Blumenthal – we were never fans of Bill Clinton, but were surprised by the brilliance and lit-level quality of Blumenthal’s book “Clinton Wars” – His son shares his intelligence
Dr Leo Strauss says
We’ve been flattered that Sid Blumenthal enjoyed this site since its beginning . He and a few in the netroots were among the first to recognize and then take a stand against the earlier regime’s larger historical dangers.
With the Wilson’s the universe may be re-establishing the space-time balance thrown awry by Ambassador Wilson’s unquenchable thirst for publicity and undeserved gravtias. The price we pay for all of that – Tim Russert, his wife, the torrential name dropping, etc. is a rube summoned from an imploding state. To give karmic harmony this Joe Wilson must blurt out a crude-ism against a demonstrably self-possessed leader with undeniable smarts before a national audience. Kind of a ‘balance of the Force’ without all the merchandizing tie-ins?
Comment says
Leo, what’s up with guys named Joe Wilson? First the Ambassador , now the buffoon from SC.
inquire says
Leaving aside the infuriating self-promotion of this interview, Blumenthal echoes many themes the good Dr. has been proclaiming for some time – even using the same ‘movement’ nomenclature.
He speaks earlier of Dobson and child psychology, the sado-masochism of his doctrine, what Blumenthal misses entirely, however, is the kinship between the beating of the child and embracing them in their tears is not dissimilar to methods of breaking that employed in torture – I believe the technical term is learned helplessness. He also, at least in this interview, doesn’t stress sufficiently, what you have rightly warned about – that attempting to placate or compromise is bad for the Democrats, but is also a dire risk to democracy.