"There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters." Daniel Webster

Friday, February 20, 2009

The Best and the Brightest Redux

David Halberstam used that as the title of his book about the Vietnam War as an ironic comment on how the intellectuals in the Kennedy administration, arrogant in their own brilliance, crafted the policies that led the United States down a bitter road.

Fabius Maximum uses the term to describe the parallels with Barack Obama's economics team.

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