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Having It Both Ways

5.23.08 @ 12:01AM

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Don't bet good money on the idea that Barack Obama can't "bully" John McCain unless you believe: a) the "race card" will never be played between now and November, or b) McCain's hearty appetite for media approval he gets turning against his own party has been satiated.

Fat chance on both counts.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

"What kind of a person tells us what we can and cannot say and whom we must be in agreement with?..."

Well said, Mr. Tyrrell! This is the money quote in a great piece, but may I be so bold as to suggest that "bully" does not fully describe these miscreants and their behaviors. May I humbly submit that one easily ascribe these same bullies the fascist moniker, for in essence are they not attempting to shut up, discredit, and otherwise stifle any dissent from their views and impose THEIR agenda?

Of course, it would be divisive to point this out and the chosen one has already spoken on that subject!
-- Stuart Reed
Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan

How right on are Bob Tyrrell's comments about elitist, leftist Democrats, and their colossal moral superiority, especially on the heals of yesterday's Orwellian joke of a Senate show trial at the Judiciary Committee? Orwell himself would have been rendered awestruck by the sheer audacity of the backwards blame game that was spewed by these pompous frauds. What a sight, the kindergarten class, once again, chastising the teachers and the principal.

Never mind the lucid, intelligent, and adult explanations on the global economics and politics of oil, offered by these pillared oil executives. No, they were political fodder, there to be slandered, scorned and ridiculed. A true Roman Circus, complete with C-Span coverage. (I recall a Star-Trek episode that tracts this story line) Of no consequence was the fact that this Congress, and its predecessors, for over 30 years, have engaged in gross malfeasance, that boarders on the criminal, in their failure to promulgate an intelligent, coherent energy policy, necessary to sustain our $12 Trillion economy. And now, we can add food shortages and riots, courtesy of these same superiorists. How much more of this moral superiority can we take? Oh, and let's not forget their fellow travelers in the MSM, that have perpetuated the Orwellian story line. Not to depress, just to close the loop here, our own candidate, John McCain, suffers from this same strain of moral superiority. Have a nice day!
-- A. DiPentima

Of course President Bush does not need to mention Senators Reid, Obama or Clinton. Nor does Madam Speaker Pelosi need to read W's lips to associate the Democratic Party in general or Illinois' (very) junior senator in particular with appeasement and cowardice. No, as the saying goes, "a guilty conscience needs no accuser."
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF
Re: Andrew Cline's The Israel Factor:

Good Lord, the parodists can no longer stay ahead of the lunatics. In Andrew Cline's article spoofing reporting on Israel, he imagines an article on the German invasion of Poland, describing the German grievances as justification for the invasion.

Meanwhile, in (alas) the same universe we inhabit, Pat Buchanan publishes an article in Human Events. With an apparently straight face, Mr. Buchanan notes that Hitler sent tanks across the border because "Poland refused to negotiate over Danzig, a Baltic port of 350,000 that was 95 percent German and had been taken from Germany at the Paris peace conference of 1919, in violation of Wilson's 14 Points and his principle of self-determination."

One wants to say something devastatingly clever. In this case, res ipsa loquitur.
-- Charles Meyrick

CONTEMPTIBLE FASHION
Re: Quin Hillyer's Will Republicans Buy the Farm?:

I appreciate Quin Hillyer's passion and hopes but it seems exceptionally unlikely to me. Democrats live and breath this stuff (pork) and most of those who pass for Republicans today have been "assimilated" to that path. It all reminds me of the Borgs on "Star Trek," and those RiNOs are buying the part where they hear "Resistance is futile." Republicans are acting in contemptible fashion, no other way to describe it.
-- Roger Ross
Wisconsin

It appears they just did buy the farm. Looks like your captain is going down with the Republican ship.
-- Paul Doolittle

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