Letters to the Editor
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Victimhood
Victimhood rallies the base. It stimulates people's lizard brain. Most of the whiners on the right have an open ended grudge against their personal tormentors of long ago. Norm Podhoretz was picked on as a kid, David Horowitz thinks everybody's out to get him, Berkowitz takes offense at the slightest conversational disagreement with his cheerleading for Bush.
These guys talk tough when it's time to send others to fight for their cause, but personally, they're wimps.
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Considering the Elites have decided to sacrifice the United States
George bush has not only done grievous damage to our nation, our standing in the world and the office of the President...he's poisoned the soul of America.
Bankrupt it and let others come in and buy it for pennies on the dollar, Bush has been a fine president.
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re: executive power
Prof. Berkowitz on Starr's analysis as a recipe for inoculating others against hating presidents to come:
The recipe consists above all in recognizing that constitutional liberalism in America "is the common heritage of both modern conservatives and modern liberals, as those terms are understood in the Anglo-American world," writes Prof. Starr. We are divided not by our commitment to the Constitution but by disagreements--often, to be sure, with a great deal of blood and treasure at stake--over how to defend that Constitution and secure its promise of liberty under law.
Irony is absolutely lost on these folks.
@ Jim White
Madame Defarge is absolutely one of my favorite characters from literature.
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Jim White
Candide was tossed out of the palace in Voltaire's powerful story based on real historic events.
At the end of the story the Doc's thoughts etc.,
Everyone began to gripe about the sweet cookies, and pumpkin soup etc., and the burped up toast on the Wall Street Journal's Op-Ed page toast.
The End sentence in response to much moaning, yakking, and constant groaning...
This: "But we must cultivate the garden"
I'm late/out-over.
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Who is this Bush Hatred guy, and why are all the Republicans talking about him?
Did Bush Hatred start an illegal war and in the process kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people and cause millions to become refugees, while stifling any protest against that atrocity? Did Bush Hatred illegally spy on Americans? And did Bush Hatred try to turn the government into one party's personal enforcement mechanism for ensuring political hegemony? I know, Bush Hatred said the Constitution is just a piece of paper... No?
WSJ- crackerjack reporting (for now...); on-crack editorials.
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Scrub Shrub
Day. Now there's a vision of a thing, Bebop-o: a vast army of spring cleaners, scrubbing out the national soul. We could invite the Dalai Lama to be our honorary team captain, all put on orange or crimson robes in his honor, take up our brushes and scrub and wash and clean and mend until we are the shining, or at least cleaned up, city on the hill. America like some poor old folks home patient, neglected, lying in its own filth, needing some cool competent volunteers to clean them up, wash the linens, scrub the floor, open the windows. Bush hatred? More like Bush horror at what they have done to themselves and others. Horror. Pity. Sadness. Disgust. Ever worked in a hospital? I wan an orderly once upon a time. You would feel a disgust so visceral sometimes you wanted to go puke. But you stood firm and did your job to clean the person up. But they won't let us get to cleaning. They won't let us debreed the bed sores and was the linen. They insist in laying in their filth and forcing others to do it with them. That can lead to quite an anger. And quite a sadness. O bebop-o, whatever will we do?
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Susan Mc & Ellie
Bush and Cheney plant entire audiences, and you don't hear the wingnuts complain about that!
Someone needs to tell them that spewing uncomposted fertilizer will only end up burning the vegetation. ;->
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tinmanic:
In this case, the WSJ's editorial board probably does agree with Berkowitz, but you can't prove it. Despite the fact that the WSJ's Clinton-bashing is well documented, I think this is a flaw in your argumentative chain here.
The WSJ Op-Ed page almost exclusively publishes right-wing pieces with which it agrees. As a matter of formal logic, you may be right, but in practical terms, you aren't.
Either way, even if Berkowitz's views can't be attributed to the WSJ page, the fact that he speaks of "Bush hatred" as some sort of unique phenomenon in light of this history I cited as an indictment of his argument.
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These are people
who always claim the high ground and yet uniformly project the filthiest motivations to their enemies; all you have to do is take what they say and then read it backwards....I now know to take every single word of Bush's - for instance - and turn it around to reveal that, consistently, the opposite is true, that he (and his) is (are) motivated by the worst of what he declares his enemies to be about. Greed, violence, anti-democratic intent, hatred of our freedoms, these are all what they attribute to those they hate. Freudian, surreal, 1984; we have arrived. The more I hear about 'hatred' from the right, the deeper we sink into their enraged, righteous nightmare. What's so confusing to me is whether they are aware of this and are deliberately choreographing things this way, Rove style, or whether they honestly cannot remove their heads from up inside their small intestines.
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On Wendell Berry
Hey Bebop, let's get a Democrat in the White House & then Mr. Berry could visit. I wouldn't waste him on the current occupants ;-)
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@tinmanic
Criticizing the wrong entity
A newspaper does not necessarily endorse the views of the writers published on its op-ed page. In this case, the WSJ's editorial board probably does agree with Berkowitz, but you can't prove it.
-- tinmanic
The editorial board is responsible for what is published on the editorial page of their newspaper. This isn't like 'Letters to the Editor'.
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
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Wikipedia
http://tinyurl.com/39w2kn
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hehe
Bankrupt it and let others come in and buy it for pennies on the dollar, Bush has been a fine president.
-- brightstar65
Has there ever been a president you liked whether you voted for him or not?