Thomas Franks on Bitter
Apr 21st, 2008 at 4:42 pm by Susie
In his first column for the Wall St. Journal (h/t Corrente):
If Barack Obama or anyone else really cares to know what I think, I will simplify it all down to this. The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. If some candidate has a scheme to reverse this trend, they’ve got my vote, whether they prefer Courvoisier or beer bongs spiked with cough syrup. I don’t care whether they enjoy my books, or would rather have every scrap of paper bearing my writing loaded into a C-47 and dumped into Lake Michigan. If it will help restore the land of relative equality I was born in, I’ll fly the plane myself.
I think he means a modern Solon
It’s astounding that a Murdoch publication would publish something this honest and clearly expressed.
What’s going on here?
who cares about the cool hundred million she and her husband have mysteriously piled up since he left office? Or her years of loyal service to Sam Walton
Ah, nothing like throwing in a few unwarranted Clinton smears. Think he’s smarting from getting contradicted on his theories by Paul Krugman?