Prometheus 6

Change is inevitable; you adapt or die. So ultimately the Conservative goal of staying always the same is a cutural suicide pact. Conservatives will yield to the march of time.

But Liberals want to adjust as soon as a change becomes evident. Conservatives want to wait until it is unavoidable.

The Unavoidable Issue
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008; A19

Last week's dust-up over race between John McCain and Barack Obama was entirely disappointing. Obama spoke first about how his opponents would try to "make you scared of me," noting that he "doesn't look like all those other presidents" on our currency. What Obama said was true, but he made the tactical mistake of suggesting that McCain was complicit in overtly racial politics.

That gave Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, the excuse to offer the preposterous charge that Obama had "played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck."