Hedgehogs for Bush?
Yesterday, Dog Trainer staff writer Ron Brownstein likened George W. Bush to a hedgehog. Specifically, Brownstein writes:
Half a century ago, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously separated intellectuals and artists into two categories: the fox, who is clever, creative, committed to many goals; and the hedgehog, a creature driven by a single unwavering conviction. By Berlin’s standards, Bush has produced one of the purest examples of a hedgehog presidency.
With his repeated tax cuts, his support for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and the war in Iraq, Bush has consistently pursued goals that generate strong support among Republicans and conservatives, but at the price of provoking antipathy among Democrats and liberals.
There are only two problems with the notion that Bush has governed like one of Berlin’s hedgehogs. First, he hasn’t. Second, the hedgehog analogy wasn’t Berlin’s. Other than that, though, the analogy is spot on.
Thanks to alert readers Merv Benson (Prairie Pundit) and Michael Zorn for the tip.
November 1st, 2004 at 12:44 pm
Besides the factlessness (is that word? Well it is now) of the infallible liberal argument, it’s all true. Hehe, sounds like something Senator ‘Buttface’ Kerry would say.
November 7th, 2004 at 7:56 am
There is a third problem with that argument: no party of armed horsemen has ever hunted down and killed a hedgehog.