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By implication, Miss Cupp, you and I are also out-classed by the overwhelming intelligence of Mr. Obama. His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.

But Mr. Sovatsky was kind enough to identify himself as a member of the intellectual class.

No doubt he gets it. I would not be surprised if this is the same Mr. Stuart Sovatsky, Ph.D., who authored "Eros as mystery, Toward a transpersonal sexology and procreativity." Sadly, Amazon.com informs me that it is out of print. Oh well, I'm sure it was beyond my ken. I couldn't even understand Alan Sokal's "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity--I had to depend on the Cliff Notes explanation at Wikipedia.
-- Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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THIN FACADE
Re: Brooke M. Goldstein & Aaron Meyer's Death to Free Speech in the Netherlands:

The truth seems to be intolerable to those who do not practice even a pretense of honesty. We have much to fear from this in the U.S. It's coming and we're asleep at the switch.
-- Roy Hogue

HOMELESS AND BASELESS
Re: Daniel Allott's Changing the Verb of Homelessness:

Just a quick question, please cite the Constitutional authority for this? Why do so many have trouble distinguishing a FEDERAL government from a NATIONAL government? Just one more way to continue growing an oversized beast, that in truth was established to do very little.
-- Len Lieber

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A DIAMOND IN THE (MEDIA) ROUGH
Re: Lisa Fabrizio's George W. Bush, Winner:

Thank you for this article, it's the one article that I have read in a long time that is fair and realistic. It is hard to understand how nasty and childish the media has become. It pouts and smears and ridicules like some high school cliques. You can hardly ever find an article on GW that is evenhanded. If you do not agree or understand what he has done, you denigrate it, thinking that you know more than the President of the United States and all of the intelligence that he receives on a daily basis. The media thinks it knows facts, but it does not. The media is not in touch with all the various permutations and choices when presented by an issue. The President of the United States is presented with many choices, all of which have a positive and a negative result. Sometimes choices are made because they are the lesser of the many evils. It is such a frustration to me to listen and read such uneducated drivel in the press and on TV. The "opinions" that become "fact" that then is used to ridicule is astonishing.

It is President Obama's chance to lead this country. I am sure that the media will be kind to him, and that is as it should be. That job is a killer. It will not be long before President Obama's hair will be white. I wish him courage and strength. Whatever his choices are, he will be doing his best.

GW did his best, and his best was very, very good. I do not know if history will be kind to GW, but having lived through the last eight years, and having lived in a divided Germany for seven years in the 70's and 80's, I am more inclined to have a great deal of respect for the job that GW did. I know enough about history to know that what is front page news is not always the truth. I know that what is in textbooks and what is being taught in all levels of our schools is not always the truth either. We are human. We are fallible. From my experience, I will remember the last eight years as years when our country survived one attack after another, some from terrorists from the Middle East, some from terrorists who control the stock market, some from human greed and stupidity that had nothing to do with our President, some from the weather and our foolish belief that we do not have to plan for natural disasters. Despite being beaten from all sides, especially the media, GW held his head up high and did his very best, and that was certainly better than anyone in the media could have done.
-- Louise A. Erbe
Grafton, Wisconsin

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