From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 10:49:09 MST
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 02:15:35 -0800, Lee Corbin <lcorbin@tsoft.com> wrote:
> Damien writes
...
>> I'm not sure I buy that politicians are a breed distinct from ordinary
>> people.
>> ... Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch being personal friends implies an
>> acceptance
>> of the Other which I think includes legitimacy of the opposition.
>
> Quite right. It's as though they're professionals, and
> most of the rest of us are amateur partisans in comparison.
> Oh sure, a few real idealists get into office, but it still seems to me
> that they are a breed apart.
They effectively think so. The expression used inside is, or at least used
to be, "He's not a [real/serious] player..."; the kinder version is "He
doesn't play at our level." I first heard this jargon in strategy planning
for an Ohio State Representative campaign in 1967.
That language gets used even in TV (The _West Wing_) nowadays.
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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