"In politics," said Nietzsche, "the professor plays the comic role."
There was a time, on American college campuses, when this may have been true. In the '70s and '80s, American academics were, indeed, like clowns – tenured radicals who fed their students a daily diet of Marxist theory, political activism, and lectures on social justice. Much akin to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, college professors led the way while unwary students followed lockstep behind.
All of a sudden, George W. Bush is being held up as a role model for Republicans by Democrats. What did Bush do to deserve this? He formulated the "Islam is peace" slogan as a way to describe Islam in the wake of September 11.
The Democratic National Committee has cut an ad in which GOP hopefuls talk about "radical Islam," before a sober George Bush comes on to say that "Islam is peace" and that we are "not at war with Islam."
