Obama is a textbook case for the inadequacy of pragmatism - - TopicsExpress



          

Obama is a textbook case for the inadequacy of pragmatism - somewhere along the line situations come up that require the executive to make a tough call, a tough call being by definition one in which the pragmatic options are inadequate: thats when one has to take a stand based on principle, knowing the wrath of the people will descend in case of failure, take full responsibility, and never, ever try to fob off blame on lower level functionaries, or the media, or the opponents, or whatever - if one has no other principle besides Marxian power grabbing, and operates by splitting the difference in committee, then one is likely to get exposed at some point
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:01:35 +0000

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