Comments on: Idealism’s Discontents http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/01/22/idealisms-discontents/ Good Analysis, Bad Grammar Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:41:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: GNZ http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/01/22/idealisms-discontents/comment-page-1/#comment-861 GNZ Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:48:54 +0000 http://www.infiniteinjury.org/blog/2008/01/22/idealisms-discontents/#comment-861 <p>having read their policies from their websites (as opposed to watching TV adds - I actually think Obama has a richer set of policies - and possibly due to not being an American, I am willing to gamble America's future on it. (I'm clearly not going to be a successful politician myself).</p> <p>But I agree totally with your post on the impossibility of the trifecta and how smooth talking idealists grate. And passionate idealist supporters make me feel like attacking that candidate just to even up the field a bit.</p> having read their policies from their websites (as opposed to watching TV adds – I actually think Obama has a richer set of policies – and possibly due to not being an American, I am willing to gamble America’s future on it. (I’m clearly not going to be a successful politician myself).

But I agree totally with your post on the impossibility of the trifecta and how smooth talking idealists grate. And passionate idealist supporters make me feel like attacking that candidate just to even up the field a bit.

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