He gets paid how much?
DAVID BROOKS: I actually think the fight is interestingly between Dean and Kerry who are both quite liberal audiences but the Kerry is a veryconventional liberal, a very party stalwart type whereas the Dean crowd is not the Starbucks but it is more granola, more alternative consciousness. We are talking about these aesthetic differences because of the policy differences are so small.
And what Edwards and Clark bring to the table is an aesthetic sense of connection. First they both grew up poor. They both grew up in the South. They have some cultural send-off, some emanations that seem centrist even if in a policy sense they're almost indistinguishable.
Posted by dglynn at January 29, 2004 12:28 AM