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Jan 12th, 2006 at 1:13 pm by Susie
I dunno, is it just me, or would you hire someone who brings his wife and kids to his job interview?
And just as an aside from this former executive recruiter, I’d never again hire someone who has never had a real job; Alito has never worked for anyone but the government. These people invariably have a certain mindset that’s good for some things - and not for others. Execution, yes. Strategic thinking? Nope.
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Susie - don’t you think you need a Unitary Executive during our Unipolar Moment? Are you anti-Unitarian?
Speaking of Unipolar, stop by our blog and read what Bill Kristol told Bush about that. Best.
Well the point is to try to tame the inquisition. I mean who’s going to call you names and make insinuations with your wife and children standing there? In Alito’s case it was a miscaluculation because it relys on the all-too-universal belief that the inquisitor’s have better angels perching on at least one of their shoulders.
I remember Ruth Ginsberg brought her rabbi - no one dared ask her a harsh question. But her opponents were decent to begin with - so she didn’t need him.
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Re: Rant - reminded me of this:
Robert Fisk in 2003 pre-invasion:”At a seminar at the University of North Carolina, I listened to a group of professors and senior lecturers and “activists” debating how to influence the “path to war”. “What we’ve got to do is to reach out to mainstream press and bridge-build to other activists,” a lady with long gray hair announced, reading a list of proposals–all couched in the language of academic discourse that ensures her message is incomprehensible outside academia–which she wished to discuss.
Quite apart from the irredeemable nature of the “mainstream” press–The New York Times, The Washington Post and the rest are far too busy carrying more Iraqi horror stories from “intelligence sources” than reporting the American anti-war movement–the lady’s desire to “bridge-build” with fellow “activists” was all too familiar a theme.
The people with whom these liberal academics should be building bridges are the truck-drivers and bell-hops and Amtrak crews, the poor blacks and the cops whose families provide the cannon fodder for America’s overseas military adventures. But that, of course, would force intellectuals to emerge from the sheltered, tenured world of seminars and sit-ins and deal directly with those whose opinions they wish to change.
When I made this very point at Harvard and several other universities, I was told, rather patronizingly, that these people–the phrase was almost identical–had “so little information” or are “not very informed”. This is, in fact, untrue. I have heard as much sense about the Middle East from a train crew en route from Washington to Georgia and from a waiter in a St Louis diner as I have from the good folks of North Carolina.”
You can find the rest of it here:
http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk02172003.html
That is the great failing of the current middle class liberalism; it’s disdain for the working class. They forgot that it is the working class that allowed them to attain this level of discourse.
It is no wonder that liberalism is looked upon as effete and pointy headed. When it is the workers (all of those listed in der’s comment) that should be embraced, encouraged and listened to, because they are the base.
Leah continuing to Live Blog the hearings…. In between trips to the veterinarian ….
Just curious- would you include career pols, wealthy legacies and assorted butt-kissers like RFK (junior), Arlen Specter, George Bush, Bill Clinton, John Street, any DRPA employee, Ted Kennedy, John Heinz, Harold Ford, Al Bore, Any Rockefeller, and on and on?
Yeah, Puck, she was crying because they were waterboarding her husband. Or was it when they chained him hand and foot to the cement slab outside and left him in his wastes for a couple of days?
There is a cute irony in conservatives calling some questions an Inquisition and treatment that results in extreme pain and occasionally death “blowing off steam” or just an innovative interrogation technique. Particularly when the victim of that “Inquisition” has been selected, in part, because the conservatives are pretty sure he won’t interfere with practices that most people call torture.
Alito can walk out of that room any time he wants to. The same cannot be said for some random Iraqi who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
“Alito can walk out of that room any time he wants to.”
Or he can have his wife do it for him.
Not me. Automatically disqualified.
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