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Republicans for Obama are Still Republicans:
''Back in the 1860s, a new kind of 'Know-Nothing' American turned against Lincoln’s Anti-slavery Republican Party because of the Civil War. Instead of thinking seriously about political issues, these people categorically voted against Republicans. And thus, they voted for Democrats.''About Republicans, the Know-Nothing Americans said: 'We ain’t ...
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ChannelingBarackObama@yahoo.com
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October 21, 2008
Hitchens at the Hoover Institution?!!
Hitchens's rhetorical question/title is an ad hominem attack. (''Why is McCain Still Beating His Wife?'' ) His use of ''dusky'' reminds me of Richard Brookhiser's phrase ''Numinous Negro.'' (I mean that in a bad way.) Why is Hitchens flaccid, facile, and infuriated? The notion that we should all remember a single line from one of Obama's ...
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btraven
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September 24, 2008
Why is Hitchens the same? :oP
Write this exact same slant on the McCain / Palin ticket on why they are Bob Dole. What ''memorable'' quotations are there from the Republican side? The only one readily available is the lipstick/pitbull quip by Palin - not exactly something that ''says'' anything at all. The reason Obama is not ahead further in the polls is two-fold: he's not ...
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KanisSapphirus
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September 23, 2008
The Great Game -- Anglo Amero Brits and Kamchatka!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waziristan Honestly, I do not know why it is, that I both love to read Christopher Hitchens every week, and disagree with his every point almost without exception. Maybe it is his ''the sun never sets on the British Empire'' world girdling perapatetic meanderings around the World Map of Current Events and political ...
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MichaelBernard2
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September 19, 2008
Hitchens and MCCain
Chris Hitchens, who has a blind spot - obtuseness when defending THE ANOINTED ONE (McCain, of course) - seems incapable of understanding that it's THE ANOINTED ONE (McCain, of course, darling of the MSM) who made the near-senile Senator's wealth an issue when he decided to attack Obama as a celebrity, a man of privilege. Nothing is further from ...
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TheBigAl
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September 2, 2008
Re: An Amazingly Lazy Essay
Mr. Hitchens has his own talking points (whether he is aware of them or not) and doesn't require any guidance from either party to work his mischief. In this case his points are: 1)Saddam killed Kurds 2)Neocons killed Saddam 3)McCain is more neoconservative than Obama, ergo: 4)McCain deserves a gentleman's defense. In the end two things are ...
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tomrigid
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September 1, 2008
Hitchens and McCain
I would have been perfectly happy to see Hitchens nominated as Vice-President, if he were eligible, which he's not, to be President, but Paris Hilton, seriously, would have been a much better choice than Sarah Palin. If Hitchens is capable of arguing that McCain, with his (how many?) houses and his (how qualified?) beauty queen, is now putting ...
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TheBigAl
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September 1, 2008