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Imagine That : /p>

Regarding ego as sometimes being a primary political motivator, one can see that the reason Jesse Jackson attacked Obama for acting like he's white is that Jackson himself is green. Moreover, Jackson should have said "acting as if he's white" in order to avoid grammatical errors that are sometimes used to stereotypes blacks.

p>Sidney Harris once held up as a test of authenticity the willingness to include in one's efforts work for a cause that does not directly help oneself. He cited the Pro-Life movement and the ACLU as groups that do this. It would be good if Jackson and Sharpton spoke up and demonstrated for the Swedish cartoonist now in hiding and under government protection. br> -- Richard L.A. Schaefer br> Dubuque, Iowa /p>

As a sort of footnote to Ms. Fabrizio's essay, there emerges another pattern to liberal behavior. I read that another vacuous celebrity, fabulously wealthy, has decided that "The View" is off limits to radical leftists because it has a mildly conservative cast member. I am speaking of Barry Manilow, who characterized Ms. Hasselbeck's views as "despicable."

This follows on the heels of Democrats refusing to participate in a Fox-sponsored debate relating to the race for the Presidency.

I see two aims in this cowardly behavior. First I posit the radical left wants field only "softballs" as if they have to respond to penetrating questions they will be exposed for the haughty, elitist, autocrats they are and their programs will be shown to be as effective as they are in Cuba and were in Russia.

Secondly, lack of spine seems to run very deep and long in the Democrat party. They urged the north to quit the Civil War; they quite literally surrendered thousands of Vietnamese to concentration camps and millions of Cambodians into murder camps. They supported a communist revolution in Nicaragua, and are now suggesting that we surrender to terror in Iraq.

In each of these military surrenders there is clear evidence that Democrat sympathies with the enemy made each of the wars more terrible because the enemy knew that if they could just raise the number of American soldiers killed the Democrats would surrender.

p>My dead friends from Vietnam I'm sure, if they were able, would thank the Democrats for freeing them from such horrible problems as home ownership and the possibility of foreclosure, trying desperately to find health insurance, raising children, and having to work.

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