If you want to win an election...

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...you have to agree with the majority of your electors. On at least one issue, future President Barrack Obama did. http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/obamas_smackdown_of_maureen_do.html

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OTOH, I hadn't realised Tom Friedman played "hours of golf" with Obama. (in the original linked JTA piece.) Strangely, he didn't share that one with us.

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Are you surprised?

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Funnily, a little. Friedman ain't bad at all - at least he does his own legwork which grounds him in reality.

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Better men than he were in politicians' pockets - cf. Walter Lippmann with FD Roosevelt and later Charles De Gaulle. In fact, one of the smartest things a politician can do is encourage some prominent intellectuals to become his friends, even his intimates. That creates more loyalty than any promotion or bribe, and the intellectuals, being intellectuals, are rarely in a position to challenge him.