Joel C. Rosenberg: Two Great Dissidents - Natan Sharansky’s vision, and President Bush’s

National Review Online ^ | November 19, 2004 | Joel C. Rosenberg

[rang1995]

this is what the left just dosn't understand..and it will bite them in the ass

[NutCrackerBoy]

At the Democratic convention, when Joe Lieberman used the word "liberated" in connection with the toppling of Saddam, you could have heard a pin drop. I asked a Democratic friend: she replied with a note of scorn that Lieberman is not in the mainstream of the Democratic Party.

[rang1995]

good let them keep this up..they can all seek help(mental) again in 4 years

[NutCrackerBoy]

Bump To The Top

[MEG33]

"But it is better to have a democracy that hates you than a dictatorship that loves you."
BUMP!

[rang1995]

great article

[BartMan1]

Worth o read, fellas....

[Valin]

I'm already half-way through your book," Rice said. "Do you know why I'm reading it?"

Sharansky, a self-effacing man who spent nine years in KGB prisons (often in solitary confinement) before becoming the first political prisoner released by Mikhail Gorbachev, hoped it had to do with his brilliant analysis and polished prose.

Rice smiled. "I'm reading it because the president is reading it, and it's my job to know what the president is thinking."



What can I say, George and I have great taste in books. :-)

This is a small densely packed book, the kind where you read a paragraph and then you have to think.

I can't recomend it highly enough!

[Valin]

You're a bad evil wicked person! :-)

[Valin]

I asked a Democratic friend: she replied with a note of scorn that Lieberman is not in the mainstream of the Democratic Party.

All to true I'm afraid. This might explain their great success in recent elections.

[FreeReporting]

"I never understood why his political party failed to get traction in Israel. His analysis is that the Russian immigrants didn't need a party that focussed just on them, but in fact he tried to expand his party to include English-speaking immigrants and others as well."

He was wonderful as a freedom fighter, but his Israeli political stances and his attitudes towards economics didn't strike a chord with us. Not to say we don't respect him.

[Valin]

Bump

[Ziva]

When Sharansky was released by the Soviets, he was told to "walk straight across the bridge." Ever defiant, Sharansky chose to walk in a zig-zag fashion rather than to obey the Soviet authorities.