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"David Johnston" wrote in message
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> On 6/1/2013 10:42 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:
>> Why This Scandal Is Different
>>
>> Peggy Noonan
>>
>> Sometimes when you’re writing part of a column you keep getting close
>> to the meaning of what you want to say but you don’t quite get there,
>> the full formulation of the idea eludes you. Then two days later,
>> relaxing in conversation with friends, the thought comes to you whole,
>> and you think: That’s what I meant to say. That’s what I was trying to
>> get.
>>
>> This week I had one of those moments. I kept trying, the paragraph
>> kept not quite working, the deadline came.
>>
>> I got an email last night that had the effect of a clarifying
>> conversation. It was from a smart friend who works in government. He
>> understood the point I was trying to make about how the current IRS
>> scandal is different from previous ones and more threatening to the
>> American arrangement. I had written that this scandal isn’t a discrete
>> event in which a president picks up a phone and tells someone in the
>> White House to look into the finances of some steel industry
>> executives, or to check out the returns of some guy on an enemies
>> list.
>>
>> But my friend got to the essence. He wrote, “The left likes to say,
>> ‘Watergate was worse!’ Watergate was bad—don’t get me wrong. But it
>> was elites using the machinery of government to spy on elites. . . .
>> It’s something quite different when elites use the machinery of
>> government against ordinary people. It’s a whole different ball game.”
>
> Ordinary people? What ordinary people are we talking about?
>
As opposed to the elites
Can't you even read a simple text for comprehension ?
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