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Article: More Lliberal than thou (II).
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- Quadrant
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- December 1, 2003
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ALL POLITICAL STAFFERS are prone to fantasy. Most just see themselves in their bosses' shoes. I like to think I'm walking down that beach with Robert Kennedy and Freckles the dog, helping him carry the weight of the world on his shoulders just days from the fateful California primary. That's OK. It's a pretty generic daydream for a small-1 liberal of a romantic disposition.
Greg Barns, though, is a weird one. Barns seems to think he's Milovan Djilas--betrayed and persecuted by the Howard revolution as much as Djilas was betrayed by the new regime and the new class he helped create. But Djilas' revolution was never that pure--there was plenty of blood, as well as ...