Quoting Saul Bellow, Will calls Rep. Frank "shrewd and nutty"
August 23, 2009 12:30 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From George Will's August 23 Washington Post column, headlined "Obama's State Capitalism":
Even more than the New Deal and the Great Society, Obama's agenda expresses the mentality of a class that was nascent in the 1930s but burgeoned in the 1960s and 1970s. The spirit of that class is described in Saul Bellow's 1975 novel "Humboldt's Gift." In it Bellow wrote that the modern age began when a particular class of people decided, excitedly, that life had "lost the ability to arrange itself":
"It had to be arranged. Intellectuals took this as their job. . . . This arranging has been the one great gorgeous tantalizing misleading disastrous project. A man like Humboldt, inspired, shrewd, nutty, was brimming over with the discovery that the human enterprise, so grand and infinitely varied, had now to be managed by exceptional persons. He was an exceptional person, therefore he was an eligible candidate for power." So, shrewd and nutty people such as Rep. Barney Frank are brimful of excitement about arranging American life.
He is one creepy guy.
That was great!
The case can be made too that they are doing it for diversity sake, and not to prop up the white regime.
And this is relevant to the current topic how?
and thereby racial and economic particulars
You can tell a person's race and economic level by his Zip Code? How?
before looking at their GPA and ability to do well in college!
And your proof of this is?
This is the insidious racial policy of the liberal left!
Apparently you feel that only liberals are allowed into these schools. Um, right. Clearly we have another case of someone who's desperate to claim that racism is a problem of the left. I fear no good will come of talking to such a person.
I'm sure George Will was challenging all these Bush Doctrine issues in the same way as this self serving attack commentary on Obama's Agenda!!!