Posted on 01/08/2013 8:09:51 AM PST by Kaslin
Hussein is all about “in your face”. He’s a petty, vindictive, hateful, thug that hates EVERYTHING this country once represented.
All of this “GOP hates Hagel” bit is to appease Lefties so that they kvetch less about Hagel being on Chevron’s Board of Directors (pro-fracking).
Everything this somebitch does is an “in your face” move. His primary source of cardio excercise is running vicory laps and dancing on graves.
“Republican” Hagel endorsed Obama in 2008 and 2012.
Already our Ted Cruz has said “No” to Hagel, but will he stand alone? If not Hagel, the second choice will just be another Hagel with another name.
Few people realize that America had the highest standard of living in the world beginning about 1750.
The opportunity for material success attracted at least as many people as the opportunity for personal freedom.
That should be enough to vote against him
I see you've been reading Richard Hofstadter. As he noted in America at 1750 (published posthumously),
An Englishman who traveled in America in the opening years of the nineteenth century noticed "many families, particularly in Pennsylvania, of great respectability both in our society and amongst others, who had themselves come over to this country as redemptioners [partial indentees], or were children of such."
What was true of the Pennsylvania interior in the Federal period had been true across the mountains in the Delaware and Susquehanna valleys 40 years earlier.
In the 17th and 18th centuries they mostly came for religious freedom, and to get out from under landlords and squirearchs and other squeezemeisters, and acquire real property of their own.
That's a name I haven't thought about in 40 years.
Never read “1750,” but I did read “The American Political Tradition” for a history class.
I also read “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” after college, but I can't recall a single word of the book.
I read through the Wiki biography.
Seems that Hofstadter started out as a Communist, then became center-left after enjoying considerable success as an author and speaker.
After the student riots at Columbia, he became something of a Neo-Con, which appears to be the time frame in which he wrote “1750.”
Getting a front-row view of Moscow's little chickensh*ts at work fomenting riot and rebellion tends to have that effect on some people. Roger Rosenblatt, longtime talking head on PBS's McNeil-Lehrer Newshour 15 years ago, was a Harvard faculty prof in 1969 when the Communists -- oh, I'm sorry, I meant "progressives" </smoking sarc> -- instigated the student occupation of the admin building there.
The whole idea was to provoke a police riot like Chicago's the year before, which would yield good "information operation" materials </off al-Q'aedaspeak> for the Commie-symp media (remember Rather's joke about CBS, that rumors of a sale couldn't fly because the KGB would never sell?), and radicalize the chumps who'd bitten on the Communists' prolefeed and exposed themselves to police action by digging in and making a show of longterm occupation.
Rosenblatt said he was walking past the back of the building when he saw all these "students" bailing out of the back windows and running away, just as the police, batons rising and falling on the fellow-travelers, waded in the front entrance.
Rosenblatt asked one of the fleeing ratweasels why they were running away and abandoning their followers. One of them replied, "the leadership must always preserve itself" -- a statement right out of the mouth of Orwell's big pig, Napoleon, in Animal Farm.
Not sure what’s more shocking...
Dan Rather telling a self-deprecating joke.
Or, Dan Rather telling a really, really funny self-deprecating joke.
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