http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/350jtqtl.asp?pg=2
"...The keynote speaker on the science panel was General Clark, who
bravely told the audience, "Science is one of the things that's near and
dear to my heart."
"What worries me," Clark said, "is the conflict out there between faith
and reason, faith and science." He gave a rambling speech. He told a long,
involved story about his participation in a "radiation project" while a
young man in Arkansas; tackled cosmology ("Apparently, there are many,
many universes. And we're in this one"); listed American inventors from
Franklin to Ford; namedropped Copernicus, Aristotle, and Aquinas; gave the
Newtonian formula for gravity; spelled out Pi to about the fifth numeral;
and quoted the speed of light. The audience loved every minute.
Clark was playing to the audience's conception of its own intelligence.
This is one of his political gifts, and one of the reasons he is so
popular among the netroots. In some sense, the YearlyKos conference was an
exercise in social differentiation, a way to say, I am not that, whether
that is a religious nut who votes conservative or a neocon warmonger. For
many attendees, the answers to all political questions were self-evident.
While the politicians were working to tap a new source of campaign money,
the bloggers, it seemed, cared more about being with people who agreed
with them and dreaming of future Democratic victories. At the moment, the
netroots is a political movement with only the fuzziest ideology."
.....
"... At a moment when Democratic candidates face close races almost
everywhere in the country, one of the party's most influential
constituencies is looking only for politicians who emote, who oppose, who
rail against Bush, the GOP, and the war."
regards....
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