Re: Effects of transit on congestion

On 2006-06-23, David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A while ago I was listening to one of the better left radio talk
shows--I forget the woman's name, but she has what I hear as a NY/NJ
Jewish accent. She mentioned a recent book which apparently claims that
essentially everything said by the Democratic presidential candidates in
the past two elections was scripted, including the parts designed to
seen not scripted. She went on to suggest that that was one of Bush's
advantages.


I tend to put such claims in the class of claims that there wasn't
really a moon landing.


Whether the claim is true I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if
"losing his temper" was scripted too.


I considered the possibility, and I really can't see how. Charlie
Rose, so far as I can tell, does not script his shows. And, it just
looked wrong for a scripted mistake; with Reagan, you knew he was
always "on"--everything looked perfect, and he'd cover any mistakes.
This looked rough and live--there was no cutting away, or covering.
The question was an easy one and a negative reaction from any
policy-maker was predictable, but Clinton, Reagan, and W. Bush would
all have reacted more smoothly.

The way she put it (by memory so not verbatim) was "He sounds like a
real person. A stupid person, but real."

And he has never sounded stupid to me; he sounds smart, manipulative,
and nasty--which his record seems to indicate is correct.

I should add that the reason I was worried about Gore winning in 2000
was that I was afraid that he, unlike Clinton, might be a man of
principle--and the principles he appeared to have seemed to me likely to
lead to undesirable policies. A colleague who I gather has contacts in
the national Democratic party reassured me.


Depends what you mean by principle--politics is matter of compromise,
after all. He shows signs of integrity, at least--that was after all
his reputation before Rove smeared him. Based on that interview, I
think he might actually be a good executive, which quite surprised
me--it's not something that comes across in his speeches or shorter
interviews.

Randolph
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