Who Knew? Elliot Abrams is married to Norman Podhoretz's stepdaughter ( moonlights as meteorologist)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams

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Jewish family in New York and he understands Hebrew.<3> His father was an immigration lawyer. Elliott received his B.A. from Harvard College, a Master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics, and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. At Harvard, he was a roommate of Steven Kelman, founder of the Young People's Socialist League campus chapter. Together they penned an article on the 1969 Harvard strike for The New Leader, "The Contented Revolutionists."<4> He practiced in New York--in the summers for his father, and then briefly on Wall Street--but found that he preferred politics. He worked on Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson's brief campaign for the 1976 Democratic nomination, after which he served as special counsel and ultimately as chief of staff for the then-new Senator Daniel Moynihan.

Through Senator Moynihan, Abrams was introduced to Rachel Decter, the step-daughter of Moynihan's friend, Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary Magazine and the "godfather" of neo-conservatism. They were married in 1980.

Abrams first came to national prominence when he served as Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the early 1980s and later as Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs. His nomination to Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs was unanimously approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 17 November 1981.<5> Abrams was Reagan's second choice for the position; his first nominee, Ernest W. Lefever, had been rejected by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 5 June 1981.<6>

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Elliot Abrams: We do not need to shovel speculation

http://www.accuweather.com/news-blogs.asp?partner=forecastfox&blog=abrams

Elliot Abrams
Expert Senior Meteorologist
North East US Expert


Oh Well. I was half right anyway

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1. So Elliot Abrams was a socialist before he went Neocon?

I have yet to find a satisfactory reason for why so many former leftists, some even outright socialists, with fine intellectual pedigrees went 'bad'. How do you go from being a friend of the working class, for the Revolution and global solidarity to the EXACT opposite - neo-imperialist, neo-fascist and neo-conservative? Was it mere personal opportunism? Or did the odds of taking on Capital look so daunting that they gave in and switched sides to 'be with the winners?'