The Empty Suit
I finally had a minute to watch the entire grilling, in which Bernie Sanders talks about the very same heist that Michael Moore spoke about in Madison, and Arne Duncan does his best to put sentences together in response.
It really is remarkable that the president of the United States leans on Arne Duncan for policy advice. Everyone agrees that Arne Duncan is the nicest guy in town, and I believe it. What I also see in Arne Duncan is a guy who has never won an election and never could and never will, a guy who's never actually had to apply for a job and earn it on merit, a guy whose reliance on platitudes is mind-numbing (watch at about 7:40), and a guy whose core political emptiness represents the exact kind of vacuum that nature abhors and that quickly gets filled with gas. In Arne Duncan's case, the gas is emanating from sources that oppose virtually everything Barack Obama
It really is remarkable that the president of the United States leans on Arne Duncan for policy advice. Everyone agrees that Arne Duncan is the nicest guy in town, and I believe it. What I also see in Arne Duncan is a guy who has never won an election and never could and never will, a guy who's never actually had to apply for a job and earn it on merit, a guy whose reliance on platitudes is mind-numbing (watch at about 7:40), and a guy whose core political emptiness represents the exact kind of vacuum that nature abhors and that quickly gets filled with gas. In Arne Duncan's case, the gas is emanating from sources that oppose virtually everything Barack Obama
