Posted on 05/24/2004 4:42:38 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Very true. The dumbing down of American Society in the 20th Century did certainly not miss the Oval Office.
What is impressive, throughout the Farewell Address, is how apt Washington's comments remain on all the subjects that he covers. It was truly an address for the ages, and should be required reading in every school--that is if we want to educate our youth in how to analyze problems, and avoid the very worst tendencies to which political man is prone.
William Flax
The reason for this bump is to make sure that the actual subject of the thread does not get lost in some of the many side issues, some of us--quite possibly myself, included--are capable of getting into. And, to be completely honest, I think my #316 said what needed to be said.
What? Where's your usual "neocon is a codeword for jooz" post?
I don't do that one. I do do stupid patsy posts though.
I'm sorry...I was still on line. I didn't mean to scare you. I'll leave now so you can feel safe to post and run again.
Kristol just hasn't gotten the word yet from FR's coast guard hero about what 'neocon' really means.
Oh, by the way...your buddy Chamberlain Duff there seems to be missing in action. And all of his adoring fans have been waiting for his return.
Like Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe? The Lincoln cult always has an excuse for the FF slave owners, let's hear yours-
Run off and hide if you need to. Your pals at DU are waiting.
Yep, your obsession with patsy is legendary. It's... abnormal, except in Massachusetts I suppose.
Don't dispair...I can understand your anquish. It seems just like yesterday that the proud brigaders where galloping across so many threads, riding to the sounds of the gums, posting their silly Vietnam photo with all their faces superimposed on it following a fat head pat buchanan (the closets he ever came to a uniform)...those were the glory days for you people.
The patsies would have seven or eight threads at a time going, promoting their guy, trashing President Bush, spouting all the fearsome buzzwords. Life was so grand for the pitchforkers.
Then pat's grand sell out happened and folks started deserting from the brigade. And when it was said and done, and pat had tried his best to be the spoiler for Al Gore...your world came apart.
From those glory days to posting a few sad comments on the tail end of some dead thread in the middle of the nigth. You've fallen a long ways...so I can understand your bitterness and why you're reduced to skulking around.
Like Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe? The Lincoln cult always has an excuse for the FF slave owners, let's hear yours-
No excuses needed, -- To a man they were well aware of the hypocrisy of slaveholding in a republic dedicated to individual freedom.
And, - I belong to no 'cult'. Lincoln was above all a politician, with their typical faults. But he did his job well, and held together our union.
Cry me a river...
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