Just a Man Apart

[bcholmes]

Clinton discussed environmental policy; crime policy; taxation policy; foreign policy, including development-aid policy; and a dozen other sets of ideas for government in ways that carried the authenticity of detail while appealing to a few broad themes. This is the essence of synthesis, the highest ideal in good European schools, dismissed or ignored in North American schools: the insightful connection between themes and details.

God, I love reading Inkless Wells.

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Impressed

[inefficient.livejournal.com]

Watching Clinton, I told my wife, "I may disagree with his stances on a lot of policies, but listening to him deliver a stump speech reminds me why I voted for him in '96."
Personally, I don't care for Clinton because I don't care for adulterers in general. I don't care for perjurers either. However, the man is a master politician, the speech was on message, on point and on fire. It was a clear and eloquent declaration of his vision of the Democratic Party's vision compared with his vision of the Republican Party's vision. I hadn't watched him campaign since 1996. I forgot just how good at it he is.