Monday, October 27, 2008

Teachable Citizens: Do We Get a Cookie from the Teacher?

Kaus links to this quote from Obama describing his great speech on race that was one of the most important of the century for about a week as being prompted by his realization that this was a "teachable moment."  What is remarkable is that this is what he remembers from these events, not the fact that he ended up throwing the Reverend under the bus just two weeks later.  Like Kaus, of course, I also agree that the idea of the electorate as slow students is a bit hard to stomach. 

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