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A Maoist in the White House

October 16, 2009 - 11:35 am - by Roger Kimball
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2009-10-20 09:42:30

Kimball et alia should read the whole quote (from a speech) before they get their knickers in a twist and obfuscate further. It’s time to stop being deliberately stupid and taking cues from Beck the Entertainer, methinks :

“The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa — not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is ‘you’re going to make choices; you’re going to challenge; you’re going to say why not; you’re going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before.”