Francis Fukuyama: When we was necons Arthur Koestler: When we was commies Robert Kagan the Leninist Lazar Kaganovich the Stalinist By now you all know that Francis ("The End of History") Fukuyama has filed for divroce from the Kristol/Podhoretz clans. In quite a number of speeches, articles (for example) and newsbites he has made it clear to all the interested parties (including potential employers like Presidents Hillary Clinton and John McCain) that he ain't a neocon, well, not a neocon like Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan, and that he now considers himself now to be what? A "reformed neocon?" A "neo-neocon?" A "neocon-Lite?" In his latest "I'm-not-a-neocon" manifesto in the New York Times, "After Neoconservatism" FF describes himself as a proponent of "realistic Wilsonianism." And in the essay (thankfully not as long as "The End of History) he does quite a lot of brilliant dialectial thinking in expla
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Perhaps most important for the anti-McCain voter is Obama's likely better chance in the general election.
Geraldine Ferraro said nothing that wasn't obviously true--there's still more resistance to a female candidate generally and Hillary in particular, though Obama's failure to reach working class whites may damn him as well.
McCain must be an unbearable gloating prick right now (when he isn't in congress with fawning members of his press corps--there are more illicit group intimacies going on in the back the Straight Talk Express than aboard a rock band's tour bus).