A new president -- even one as talented and well-motivated as Obama -- can't get a thing done in Washington unless the public is actively behind him. As FDR said in the reelection campaign of 1936 when a lady insisted that if she were to vote for him he must commit to a long list of objectives, "Maam, I want to do those things, but you must make me."
--Robert Reich
The Irreducibles
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Irrespective of the content, how is philosophy even possible? What facts on
the ground and principles in the clouds presuppose and justify its
existence?...
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