Posted by Damozel | He said---and I am betting it was a crowd pleaser:
This is the world we live in. It's not this happy, romantic-like world where we'll negotiate with this one, or we'll negotiate with that one and there will be no preconditions, and we'll invite (Iranian President Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad to the White House, we'll invite Osama (bin Laden) to the White House,...Hillary and Obama are kind of debating whether to invite them to the inauguration or the inaugural ball." (Breitbart.com)
Some Democrats are offended. Not me. I love watching him evolving into a cartoon political candidate. Berke Breathed couldn't make this stuff up. But even though that one is pretty good, it will never top---he'll probably never top---his discourse on freedom, which even George Orwell couldn't have made up or Eric Cartman have surpassed:
We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.(NYT)
That one is my favorite. I don't think I'll ever get tired of quoting that one.
Ezra Klein finds him alarming here. Many bloggers react at Memeorandum here.
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