>It's sad when people have to
>use those kinds of analogys
>in order to explain things
>to simple thinking right wingers
>and they still don't understand,
>it just goes in one
>ear and out the other
>and then they get mad
>
No Piper - that is not the point, and most "simple thinking right wingers" feel that you are condescending to them when you use a children's story to relate politics to them. To me - a very highly educated and deep thinking "right winger" - it is nothing but left wing liberal arrogance, thinking they HAVE to resort to such stories to talk to the right wingers, because as they are left wing educated liberals they are far superior in intelligence. Give me a freaking break! I see this attitude daily and your comment just proves my point.
First off, if someone who is a supposed to be a national security adviser can't come up with a better analogy than Winnie the Pooh then he is not demonstrating that he is educated enough to hold the position. If he were on my staff, he better be prepared to cite more cases of international law and incidence to illustrate such a sophisticated debate as national security and better come to the table with a lot more than Winnie the Pooh as a "fundamental text". If one of my students were writing a paper about this and using Winnie the Pooh as a "fundamental text" they would have to do the paper over again and put some more serious thinking in to it. They could use it as a anecdote to begin their argument or to help summarize, but to read parts of it as Danzig did and base that as a "fundamental text" is just silly and condescending and he should be intellectualy taken to task for over-simplifying a sophisticated debate.
Oh - but wait, who did Danzig work for before???, Yeah - that's right Clinton - slick Willy himself! Yeah he had a great policy for national defense didn't he! In fact we might have heard about Winnie the Pooh and Star Wars a long time ago but the documents on Bill's desk kept getting stained and smudged.
I thought Obama was for change? If so, then how come he is filling his staff with the Clinton White House?
UTROY
Proverbs 21:19 (why I hunt!)