[alexander_busek]

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."

I would hope that someone confessing to having chosen, as a callow twenty-year-old, his friends not on the basis of their character (integrity, intelligence, humor, compatibility), but rather on the basis of whether or not they "fit" into his public persona (i.e., to create the "right" impression - on whom?) - i.e., to avoid being mistaken for a "sellout" - would later repudiate that mind-set.

Regards,

[haroldeveryman]

Our Manchurian candidate was not put where he is because his handlers thought he had a capacity for growth.