George, that line in your post underscores a portion of Peggy Noonan’s column today1 (which is about Hillary Clinton’s don’t-hit-me-I’m-a-girl approach) that I think is exceptionally well said and well encapsulates a segment of American society that we know only too well:
They came from comfort and stability, visited poverty as part of a college program, fashionably disliked their country, and cultivated a bitterness that was wholly unearned.
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1. To find Noonan’s column after today, go to her archive and click on the Nov. 9, 2007 entry.
