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Biden His Time

8.26.08 @ 12:01AM

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Extraordinary.

Thank you for publishing it.
-- Penny Chick
Lake Elsinore, California

The great irony surrounding the modern Democrat party is that if both JFK and RFK were alive today -- and still espousing the same ideas -- they would be as "popular" as Joe Lieberman is.
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

REPUBLICANS NEED CONSERVATIVES
Re: Philip Klein's Democrats Take Denver:

You said, "If the Democrats can't win in this favorable electoral environment, it's hard to see under what circumstances they ever could."

It's not hard to see at all. Consider the Bill Clinton elections. All that's necessary is for the Republicans to nominate candidates who have contempt for conservatives, like GHW Bush ("no new taxes") and Bob Dole (tax collector for the welfare state). And then look at what the Republicans will nominate this time.
-- Michael G. Novak
Ellicott City, Maryland

For all of those Democrats who take issue with Republicans' claims that their leaders tend to make poor decisions because they seem to have no recollections of the examples set by past experiences, and thus fail to recognize that paying attention to the continuum of history is in fact intrinsic to one's ability to intelligently and effectively steward America's future, I wish to highlight the following:

Because he lied about having an affair with a campaign contractor, John Edwards has been barred from speaking at the Democratic National Convention this week; Bill Clinton, however, will address the party during the big event.

Are Democrats attempting to re-write history, or are they just ignoring it?
-- Michael S. Smith II
Charleston, South Carolina

RAGTAG
Re: Robert Stacy McCain's Conventional Nostalgia:

If he weren't forced to use the requisite number of words necessary to fill up a column, Robert Stacy McCain could have stopped writing after his first phrase: "The ragtag coalition of semi-pro agitators..."

As Ella Fitzgerald once sang, "nice work if you can get it."
-- Arnold Ahlert
Boca Raton, Florida

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Re: Justin's letter (under "Get It?") in Reader Mail's Here's to Youth:

It's painfully obvious that "Justin" doesn't read TAS regularly. Likely, he's the keyboard equivalent of Rush Limbaugh's "seminar callers." And, in all probability, he's a liberal -- since he takes everything literally and is incapable of appreciating (or, apparently, even recognizing) irony, wit, satire, or sarcasm -- even when expertly served up by the redoubtable RET.
-- David Gonzalez
Wheeling, Illinois

DON'T STRIP YOUTH OF CHARACTER
Re: Letters under "Three Longest Years" in Reader Mail's Here's to Youth and Reid Collins' Teacher's Pets:

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