November 2, 2008
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The Possibility of Success
Wonderful piece by Joe Klein today:
What would happen if the cynicism that afflicted us—crippled us, really—since Watergate suddenly dissipated? I’m not saying that we should ever stop being critical or skeptical, but what if our first impulse weren’t the debilitating assumption of bad intentions on the part of our public figures? What if we left open the possibility of nobility, the possibility of success?
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