The Democratic Debates and Loving Arthur Silber

I did something new today, I ran from where I was toward the t.v, rather than away from it.
Today there were Democratic presidential candidates participating in "live televised debates"
I cannot consider myself a Democrat, and hold myself responsible by my own values. And as far as the value of the debates, if honesty were a commodity, I couldn't say much at all. Still, I wanted to see what would happen within the party, especially what they would say regarding U.S involvement in Iran, Healthcare, "national security" etc. Also, I was interested in what would happen when Hillary Clinton was asked to respond to prompted questions. I was hoping that Clinton would be called out for being what I would consider a non-democrat. Even outside of inconsistencies between Clinton and the party, there are clear issues, for example, directly misleading voters, being inconsistent in stance and logic, supporting very strongly the status quo. Clinton talked about structuring our military forces in Iraq to be prepared for conflict with Iran, she also said we would not leave Iraq totally, and that there would always be representative forces, but more immediately the U.S would fight Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Within a relatively basic discussion (lots of sound bytes etc) there was what I wanted to see, candidates challenging Clinton. I thought they did a good job of crushing her planned policies, using the weight of logic, which is something I needed to see.


Now, for the example of why I love Arthur Silber... He did a brilliant job, as is his custom, of illustrating key issues. He describes more astutely, and generally better, the types of things I noticed and took notes on, and ones I hadn't thought of , and wish I had. (maybe I'll copy the notes here later)

He is probably the most consistent of the people whose works I read, in maintaining my respect and interest. If his topics happen to stray from what I was looking for originally, I have not found myself leaving the topic it goes into, as they all seem very valuable.


Go here
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/10/break-goddamned-rules.html
now you're looking at the link.. but you really should be looking at what he wrote about it.