Op-Ed Columnist - The Class War Before Palin - NYTimes.com
下午 03:34 2008/10/16我想這是民主政治的全面問題
或說是承襲美國政治制度的台灣遭遇的問題，現在在美國顯現。
候選人需先通過黨內初選取得提名，才能run for the general election.
然而如何在黨內脫穎而出？討好激進派、保守主義份子成了最有效率的作法。
This year could have changed things. The G.O.P. had three urbane presidential candidates. But the class-warfare clichés took control. Rudy Giuliani disdained cosmopolitans at the Republican convention. Mitt Romney gave a speech attacking “eastern elites.” (Mitt Romney!) John McCain picked Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin is scary.
最後一段寫的真好
掀起階級戰爭，指明仇視，族群分裂的選舉，好可怕。
保守並不是壞事，但面對人民從事愚民政策，塑造假想敵人激起共同意識加以打壓，令人恐懼。
看美國政治評論文章真有趣，雖然非常用字很多，但字彙優美，語句架構簡潔，引人深省。
"David Brooks was doing fine until he said that Palin was smart. I am a Republican and I think she is not very smart at all. Conniving or crafty, yes. The article explains why I am so disillusioned with my party. It is devoid of good ideas and too willing to resort to bad mouthing opponents.
— Joe, Central PA"
"Amen, Amen, Amen. This is exactly the sort of even-handed criticism the Republican party needs to hear. As a graduate student currently on the path to a PhD, I am often shocked by my fellow conservatives who blindly attack anything resembling a reasonable idea simply because it doesn't fit within their established set of categories. We need a new generation of thinkers, men and women who aren't afraid to embrace new ideas no matter the source. Whatever the origin, a good idea is a good idea.
— Patrick McWilliams, Savannah, GA"
"While Sarah Palin may not be stupid , she is self indulgently ignorant and as Mark Shields has already pointed out, she suffers from that most insidious form of ignorance:she does not know what she does not know.
— stosh, SF ,Ca"
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