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Senator Know-It-All -- Or Just Trying Too Hard?

022107clinton I'm a week late in posting this mean but perhaps funny column about Senator Clinton's overly wonky and smartypants speech to the New Hampshire NEA, which had just endorsed. 

Comparing laundry list of  a speech and show-off speaking style to that of failed Democratic wonks of the past -- Al Gore, John Kerry, and Michael Dukakis, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank mocks Clinton's attempts at sounding all educational (Teaching the Teachers). 

His take angered several commenters (see at the bottom) who felt Milbank was being a jerk.  Milbank's critics may be right, but still it IS pretty funny when politicians try to talk about thinks like auditory and kinesthetic learning styles, cohorts and homogenized learning. 

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