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Let Palin Be Palin

10.8.08 @ 12:01AM

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NOT MY CHAMPION
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Championing Obama:

Mr. Tyrrell, as always your little missives are right on target. The more I read about the Chosen One and his lovely (and very angry) wife, the more I feel disheartened at the future. The man has done nothing and yet they say he is "change and hope." Reporters want to touch the hand that touched the hand of Obama. Chris Matthews (idiot) has a tingling up his leg. I on the other hand have nausea in the stomach. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Rezko, ACORN, community organizer. I actually went out and got drunk when he said upon winning the Democratic nomination for President that "history will remember this as the day the oceans rose" or something to that effect. That was it for me. Extreme liberalism and arrogance, what a combo! Looks like I'll be doing a lot of drinking in the future. Sir, I always enjoy reading your material.
-- Ray Rieber

A POX UPON THEE FOR A KNAVE
Re: Dan Martin's letter (under "Green is the New...Nonsense") in Reader Mail's In a Bad Place:

Mr. Dan Martin's letter in response to William Tucker's "The Greening of Thomas Friedman" almost prompted a furious letter of censure. Then I re-read it and realized the subtlety of the author. Maybe it was the allusion to a "five-year plan." Maybe it was the Cabinet level department with the acronym "DONT" Mr. Martin isn't Iowahawk, but he has a place at that table. Congratulations!
-- Craig A. Zimmerman
Nairobi, Kenya

NOVAK'S FIRST CAMPAIGN
Re: Robert D. Novak's Our Founding Partisans:

I honestly can't remember where I read it, but the author stated that the Jefferson-Adams contest was one of the dirtiest in U.S. history. My recollection was that Jefferson accused Adams of running a brothel, while Adams accused Jefferson of pedophilia.

We have this image of the Founding Fathers not as men, but as God-like figures. Especially Jefferson, who, for all his greatness was deeply flawed. He spent so much money on designing, building and furnishing Monticello, when he died he left his widow and daughters in enormous debt. That's not to mention his dalliances with slaves, his theses on the intellectual inferiority of non-whites and his infatuation with the European aristocracy.

I would rather know Jefferson, warts and all, than to dwell in the myth of his perfection.
-- Melissa Roy
London, UK

Robert Novak's work just keeps getting better and better. What a guy!

Lord bless,
-- Gregg Cunningham
The Center For Bio-Ethical Reform
Lake Forest, California

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