Boston Globe columnist and frequrent talking head Thomas Oliphant has a column today describing Bush’s position on the Michigan cases as, among other things, “sneaky,” “dishonest,” “lazy,” “inattentive,” false (falsely “claimed what is disproved by the facts”), and “shoddy.”
I wish he hadn’t tried so hard to keep his biases under control. If he were willing to share what he really thought, perhaps he could have explained to people like me — who, like the president, need “a little tutoring” — the fine points of the distinction between a “quota”(“As university president Mary Sue Coleman patiently points out” to us dunces, “the policies in question are not quotas”) and a “critical mass” of minority students that Michigan’s preferences are designed to produce, which always comes out about the same percentage of each entering law school class.
