, interest in edmund burke, in a most unexpected quarter, the american left. last spring, jon meacham, the legal editor at newsweek, hailed burke as a role model for our times, a complex pragmatic figure, he said, who distrusted absolutes and who might be an antidote to the pervasive spirit of division in today's america. more recently, meacham has been claimed barack obama the most significant burkey and in american politics today. meanwhile, david brooks of "the new york times" has reported that when he had a meeting last spring with president obama's senior adviser, david off the iraq, mr. axelrod was conspicuously carrying a copy of edmund burke's reflections on the revolution in france. sam tanenhaus has taken it further. in the death of conservatism, he distinguishes between what he calls burkey and realists, the good guys in his formulation, committed he says to flexible adjustments, to changing conditions are and knows he excoriates as revanchists. ideologues seeking a destructive counterrevolution. according to him, the american conservative movement i

axelrod was conspicuously carrying a copy of edmund burke's reflections on the revolution in france. sam tanenhaus has taken the burke revival even further. in the death of conservatism he distinguishes between what he calls burkean realist, the good guys in his formulation, committed he says to flexible adjustments to changing conditions and those he excoriates as revanchists. ideologue seeking a destructive counterrevolution. according to him, the american conservative movement is dominated by extremists prevention this-- three vanishes two the prayed for a politics of stabilizing intemperance. tanenhaus's book has been criticized by conservative reviewers as a tendentious misreading of american conservatism. what tanenhaus nonstate charge is a passive, defeatist, accommodationist conservatism that politely as just in the name of burke to a political and social order created and controlled by the american left. and the arrangement as one conservative has put it, in which conservatives served as chauffeurs to liberals, tapping the brakes occasionally as the nation speeds toward soci

> we'll take the privilege of asking the last question. , george, would you agree with me that edmund burke would regard to obama the same way he did the french revolution? [laughter] that it was a radical restructuring of society that should be opposed most firmly? [inaudible] ladies and gentlemen, please join me in giving day it wonderful world of applause to our speakers teeseventeen [applause] [applause] >> we're here with christie nablus, the editor and author of a new book sisters of four. who are the sisters? >> they are two direct the sisters better 18 and 21 years old and part of the war. they are filled with hope for what the americans can do because they suffer for of labour code yield less -- older sister goes to work for the americas and falls in love with a contractor and the younger sister gets her degree at the baghdad university which becomes harder as americans lose control and a radical islamist gained control. >> when did you meet them? >> early 2003. >> you talk to the sisters and the two other women. who are they? >> one is a u.s. reservist soldier parker she eventuall

would we put all the rules together, it was amazing because you could fit them in categories like edmund burketo the electorate of bristol, how a congressman member should act, should you represent the people or the district? 26 people and to that. they all said, look, do it yourself. the constituency is important but it is not as important as what you believe that what you feel. you have been put in to exercise your own judgment. there were some funny ones, too. host: we will share those with our viewers lou frey served in the 1970's as a republican representative from florida "of the people who wanted to be my special friend, all the invitations i receive suddenly disappeared." it was as if i had forgotten to take a bath and no one really want to be close. when you were up in politics, you were sky high. when you were down, you are in the pit." guest: that is the way it is. one of my friends said politics is not been bags. if you did not like the sight of blood, especially your own, you probably should not get into the business. it is a tough business and you ought to understand that. and wh