McCain's little "cross in the sand" story? Plagerized from Solzhenitsyn #1717511

Posted by annav at 8/17/08 2:45 p.m.
Last edited at 8/17/08 2:46 p.m.

Either he is a stone cold liar, telling this story and getting choked up while on national tv, he's got early dementia and he "misremembered" it or he's totally insane and thinks it did happen to him. What other stories in the POW camp has he just stolen or made up?????

Evidently, he's a big fan.

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As he waited, head down, he felt a presence. Slowly he looked up and saw a skinny old prisoner squat down beside him. The man said nothing. Instead, he used a stick to trace in the dirt the sign of the Cross. The man then got back up and returned to his work.

As Solzhenitsyn stared at the Cross drawn in the dirt his entire perspective changed. He knew he was only one man against the all-powerful Soviet empire. Yet he knew there was something greater than the evil he saw in the prison camp, something greater than the Soviet Union. He knew that hope for all people was represented by that simple Cross. Through the power of the Cross, anything was possible.

Solzhenitsyn slowly rose to his feet, picked up his shovel, and went back to work. Outwardly, nothing had changed. Inside, he had received hope.

[From Luke Veronis, "The Sign of the Cross"; Communion, issue 8, Pascha 1997.]

The actual story appears in "The Gulag Archipelago" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

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oh yeah?

and obama lifted the "words matter" speech from deval patrick and then pretended he didnt

STILL cant stick to the ISSUES huh julie?

Remind me, which WWII concentration camp did Obama's great uncle help liberate again?

both of you sure are cranky trying to defend McBush.

I know, it's hard, hard work.

so obama DIDNT lift the "words matter" speech from deval patrick? word for freakin word????? is that what you are telling me?

i dont think plagerism from ANYONE is acceptable

guess its ok when obama does it

julieboomer:

both of you sure are cranky trying to defend McBush.

I know, it's hard, hard work.

My contention?

They're all lying pieces of shit. Representative government my ass...

Hillary lifted the exact words from one of Bill's speeches but as long as it's your husband's it's ok??????

listen up, girl. Deval Patrick gave him those lines. and don't tell me he was supposed to offer a citation in mid speech.

link me up to that please pattee

i never heard that story

btw

is hillary the dem nominee?

i didnt think so

instigator, I'm pretty sure you're not a girl otherwise I'd accuse you of being on the rag today.

"gave him"???????????????????

wow

thats rich

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha­hahahahaha

julie

stick to the issues

you would have more cred if you did

btw julie

it would have been so HARD for obama to insert "as my friend deval patrick has said:.....words matter????

julieboomer:

instigator, I'm pretty sure you're not a girl otherwise I'd accuse you of being on the rag today.

I'm not super cranky but it is "another Manic Monday" as the song goes...

;~)

except you?

I was hardly necessary. Deval Patrick was not offended.

The only people who seem to be offended at this are you wingnuts who are working desperately to keep the talking point that the McCain people fed you this morning alive.

Now, show us where Solzenetzyn gave McCain authority to crib a story out of one of his novels, and you may have a point.