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The American Spectator ^ | August 18, 2008 | Ben Stein

Posted on 08/18/2008 2:44:34 PM PDT by AnnGora

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Talk about whacked!
1 posted on 08/18/2008 2:44:34 PM PDT by AnnGora
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To: AnnGora

Why does anybody pay any attention to this goofball?


2 posted on 08/18/2008 2:46:41 PM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: AnnGora

“and wrecked his wife’s remaining life.”

I think Edwards is doing that all on his ownsome in “...hotel basements and men’s rooms.”

Weren’t American voters supposed to feel guilty his wife had cancer and vote for him? Now we’re supposed to feel sorry for him?


3 posted on 08/18/2008 2:49:43 PM PDT by Operation_Shock_N_Awe (I'd rather be a conservative nut job than a liberal with no nuts and no job)
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To: AnnGora

Ah! The smell of strange perfume!


5 posted on 08/18/2008 2:50:15 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: AnnGora
Men like to have sex with new women.

Men (males) of all mammalian species do this. It's an universal phenomenon, sometimes know as the Coolidge Effect.

6 posted on 08/18/2008 2:54:07 PM PDT by Rudder
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To: F15Eagle

John Edwards and Vlad Putin actually had the same agenda. They both pulled off their dirty work on the opening day of the Olympics.

They were hoping most of the world wouldn’t be paying attention.

Birds of a feather.


7 posted on 08/18/2008 2:56:44 PM PDT by BigBobber
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To: AnnGora

Ben Stein has been disappointing me a lot lately. ‘Nuff said.


8 posted on 08/18/2008 3:00:53 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: AnnGora
Men like to have sex with new women.

Sorry Ben, some of us are married and promised not to do some things we might otherwise have done.

Your hero, John Edwards, made a big deal about his commitment to his wife during his campaign. He almost certainly would have been appointed to a cabinet post in a (G-d forbid!) Democrat Administration. He made his private life an issue and you want us to forget about it now that it's obvious HE LIED.

Shame on you.

ML/NJ (who used to respect you)

10 posted on 08/18/2008 3:03:53 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: AnnGora

Sounds like Ben feels guilty about something.....


11 posted on 08/18/2008 3:08:33 PM PDT by AndrewB
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To: AnnGora

John Edwards thinks with his pee-pee!

That being said, why was this affair, over in 2006, find him in a hotel room in 2008, holding a “friends” baby at 2:00 AM??


12 posted on 08/18/2008 3:11:59 PM PDT by aShepard (Loose lips Sink ships)
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To: Rudder

But Ben Stein is a creationist. According to him, humans didn’t evolve from other mammals, so in his mind there shouldn’t be any reason for human beings to act like the more primitive mammals. He can’t use the animal excuse.


13 posted on 08/18/2008 3:13:34 PM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: Rudder

Yes, but we are not mere animals, as much as we’d like to pretend to be when we are indulging our basest notions. We are men, made in God’s image, with a conscience and a will, capable of doing great things.

We are not baboons.


14 posted on 08/18/2008 3:14:14 PM PDT by Marie2 (Everything the left does has the effect and intent of destroying the traditional family.)
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To: AnnGora
The list of important men with great achievements who have had extramarital liaisons goes from Julius Caesar to Napoleon to Thomas Jefferson to John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton? An important man with great achievements?

Yeah, that Ben Stein's a great conservative, all right. (obvious sarcasm)

15 posted on 08/18/2008 3:15:52 PM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: AnnGora

“Men like to have sex with new women. “

Men also like to hit people when they are angry, destroy other people’s property, rape whatever’s moving when they’re horny, sleep when their dependents are hungry, get drunk and drive, steal whatever looks good at the moment, and kill people they hate.

However, they shouldn’t do that, should they? There are reasons those things are outside the realm of accepted behavior.


16 posted on 08/18/2008 3:16:15 PM PDT by Marie2 (Everything the left does has the effect and intent of destroying the traditional family.)
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To: Marie2
We are not baboons.

In actual practice, we are furry little beasts in human suits.

But we do strive for a more noble countenance.

17 posted on 08/18/2008 3:22:07 PM PDT by Rudder
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To: JillValentine

I always thought Ben resembled a turtle...maybe he really isn’t a mammal.


18 posted on 08/18/2008 3:24:16 PM PDT by Rudder
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To: Rudder

I suspect you and I have two different world views.

I don’t believe in evolution, and I don’t think we’re descended from apes.

I think we are made in God’s image, and fell, and so must constantly subdue our sinful nature.

If you think you are descended from apes, you can dismiss just about anything, including eating your own kids.


19 posted on 08/18/2008 3:38:32 PM PDT by Marie2 (Everything the left does has the effect and intent of destroying the traditional family.)
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If you think you are descended from apes, you can dismiss just about anything, including eating your own kids.

Talk about Looney Tunes!

20 posted on 08/18/2008 3:49:36 PM PDT by Rudder
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