Nickelodeon Ethics

Maureen Dowd is an American gem. This latest piece by Dowd is perhaps the funniest thing I've read in weeks. Poking fun at White House attempts to brand Shrub the "philosopher-president", Dowd notes:

Who would have guessed that a man responsible for immortal locutions like last week's gem about immigration -- "We need to know who's coming in and why they're not going out" -- was in fact relying upon the Tusculan Disputations and the Nicomachean Ethics? Surely no close reader of Emily Dickinson's verse had ever before detected its implications for public policy.

Bush is most effective when playing the "who would you rather have a beer with?" card. No one wants to have a beer with a philosopher. Or talk about Nichomachean Ethics.

Posted June 19, 2002 11:31 AM | Comments (0)