Tony Blair

[Almighty Colin]

Ann Coulter. Can't say I'm interested in reading her book, I've never heard her speak, and I read two paragraphs of an article she wrote before I go bored. JR did tell me a great quote from her book though; "Journalists write the first draft of history".

It's pretty easy for most of us when thinking of any political organization to think of a long list of things you disagree on, whether that organization is The United States, the Democrats, the Republicans, the EU, Australia, Canada, or France. It's pretty simple also to think of a list of errors made by any of those groups.

Some people seem to get stuck in that mode. As long as political organizations have millions of adherents there sure is never going to be a shortage of lunacy to keep that approach fueled.

With admittedly very limited experience with Ann Coulter's works, whether verbal or written, it seems she is of the type that has chosen a particular position (American conservative) and pretty much gone all the way with "this is what is wrong with them" and never taking a breath to ask "what is wrong with us"?

From the two paragraphs I read she writes very well.

The fact that anyone can say SOMETHING bad about any political leader or party - and if you can't you're showing a lack of imagination - says something more to the effect that people are not perfect than anything else.

Yup, yet another "why I think party politics sucks post" ;-)