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“The best way to know you have a mind is to change it”

Posted by JOE WINDISH, Technology Editor in Politics.
Aug 5th, 2008 | Comments

On the topic of “flip-flops”, I’m with T-Steel!

The other day I posted that noted copyright attorney William Patry has ended his blog. This is more of what he had to say:

My late mother, aleha ha-shalom, told me repeatedly that I had a religious obligation to learn every day, and I have honored her memory by doing exactly that. Learning also involves changing how you think about things; it doesn’t only mean reinforcing the existing views you already have. In this respect, Second Circuit Judge Pierre Leval once said that the best way to know you have a mind is to change it, and I have tried to live by that wisdom too. There are positions I have taken in the past I no longer hold, and some that I continue to hold. I have tried to be honest with myself: if you are not genuinely honest with yourself, you can’t learn, and if you worry about what others think of you, you will be living their version of your life and not yours.

I guess I’m glad I’m not a politician.

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DLS

*** DON'T *** overreach in any desperate effort to rationalize Obama's reversals, people.

Besides, he's being a normal politician and hedging. He can ride high on two horns of a "positive dilemma" (given enough liberal media "spin"), ideally, on any issue.

Hedging is nothing new. Not on Wall Street, not in politics. Even Archer Daniels "Bob Dole Campaign 1996" Midland and other such corporations will make donations to Dems as well as to the GOP, and vary these contributions to campaigns depending on how they foresee the election results. The Dems are liberal and Threaten America With Flirtation Once More With Radicalism [tm] [insert ominous music] this year, if Obama's energy ideas are any warning [insert ominous music again as a reinforcement device]. Yet they are getting, in addition to a sea of ordinary-person small contributions, quite a chunk of corporate money, too. Why? Because the Dems are likely to win, perhaps?

(Pay attention to corporations, what size, what sources, to McCain and if there is an increase for McCain and a decrease for Obama in the months to come, not limited to those coming from oil companies. Look at health insurers, Big Pharma, the ethanol crowd etc. -- in addition to those Teamsters for Change (D) and big government unions and trial lawyers and such.)

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