Word: brahminism
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...Speaking of Dean, you asked if the country is "willing to elect a Brahmin who grew up in wealthy East Hampton, New York, and on Manhattan's Park Avenue, who brings virtually no national-security experience to a post-9/11 nation ..." I ask if the country is willing to re-elect Bush, a Brahmin who grew up the son of a rich politician with a summer estate in Maine, who had no national-security experience when he entered office and who has effectively turned much of the world against the U.S. since 9/11. I'd take the Brahmin doctor...
Here is a question: Is the country willing to elect a Brahmin who grew up in East Hampton, N.Y., and on Park Avenue, who brings virtually no national-security experience to a post-9/11 nation and who governed a state that gives homosexuals all the rights that go with marriage? How much appeal will Dean have beyond Internet-cafe society and the liberal salons of the two coasts? As he stumped in South Carolina last week, Dean rarely missed an opportunity to introduce himself archly as a "guy from the North," "a Vermont Yankee" or "this environmentalist, Birkenstock-wearing...
...sense of aloofness has always been a Kerry problem--"You shouldn't hold John's looks against him," former Senator Bob Kerrey once told me--and Dean's chesty informality has only exacerbated Kerry's air of dour Brahmin solemnity. In truth, he isn't so much aloof as he is courtly, in a formal, afternoon-tea sort of way. The shoutathon of modern politics discomforts him. He is a serious, experienced, thoughtful man; his policy speeches have been among the best of any Democrat's. But he is also a cautious man who has surrounded himself with an overstuffed...
...always had that imperious radiance: in childhood, surely, discussing weighty issues with her Brahmin parents; in her Broadway youth; and later, forever, in movies. Hollywood handed her four Oscars for Best Actress (the most any star has won) and eight additional nominations but was confounded by her steely hauteur. Film stars typically possess a glamorous version of the common touch; they are of the earth. Hepburn was apart and above, an aristocrat from some loftier time and code. But she was no standard Great Lady; her emotional intelligence was too prickly. She blew hot and cold in the same breath...
...sense of aloofness has always been a Kerry problem-"You shouldn't hold John's looks against him," former Senator Bob Kerrey once told me-and Dean's chesty informality has only exacerbated Kerry's air of dour Brahmin solemnity. In truth, he isn't so much aloof as he is courtly, in a formal, afternoon-tea sort of way. The shoutathon of modern politics discomforts him. He is a serious, experienced, thoughtful man; his policy speeches have been among the best of any Democrat's. But he is also a cautious man who has surrounded himself with an overstuffed...