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But There's A Fourth Interpretation: Obama Can't Leave His Comfort Zone. No President Since Woodrow Wilson Has Been As Enamored Of Abstract Ideas Or More Sure That Disagreement With Him Is Proof Of Ignorance, Bad Faith Or Dogmatism. As A Candidate, He Insisted His Real Opponent Was 'cynicism,' And In His Address Last Week, He Returned To This Trite Formulation, Insisting Again He Was Bravely Battling The Cynics.

Keep In Mind That Eric Alterman Is Media Critic For The Nation-a Hysterically Left-wing Magazine Dedicated To The Proposition That Corporate America, U.s. Foreign Policy And The Republican Party Are Criminal, Racist Or Both. The Simple Reality Is That, For Him, The Democratic Party Is Far Too Conservative.

(t)he Most Important Reason American Leftists Love France Is That French Elites Say Bad Things About America. French Intellectuals Call Us Racist, Stupid, Imperialistic, Simplistic, Etc. ' And That Alone Is Proof Of Their Intellectualism. So Long As You Call America “racist,” You Could Add That An Enema Is As Good As A Toothbrush And Some Professor Of “communications Theory” Would Applaud.

Hypocrisy Is Bad, But It's Not The Worst Vice In The World. If I Declared “murder Is Wrong” And Then Killed Somebody, I Would Hope That The Top Count Against Me Would Be Homicide, Not Hypocrisy. Liberal Elites ' Particularly In Hollywood ' Believe That Hypocrisy Is The Gravest Sin In The World, Which Is Why They Advocate Their Own Lifestyles For The Entire World: Sleep With Whomever You Want, Listen To Your Own Instincts, Be True To Yourself, Blah, Blah, Blah. Our Fear Of Hypocrisy Is Forcing Us To Live In A World Where Gluttons Are Fine, So Long As They Champion Gluttony.

We’re All Born Idiots, And We Only Get Over That Condition As We Get Less Young.