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The Rambo Coalition
New York Times ^ | August 24, 2004 | PAUL KRUGMAN

Posted on 08/23/2004 9:45:17 PM PDT by John Jorsett

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1 posted on 08/23/2004 9:45:17 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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To: John Jorsett
Justifiable Homicide:

Coldblooded Murder:


2 posted on 08/23/2004 9:46:23 PM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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Quite a nice piece. Krugman manages to hit every talking-point trope they've been trying to sell the public, even the ones that are already crumbling away. This guy's like a WWII Pacific Japanese soldier, still fighting for the Emperor in 1977.


3 posted on 08/23/2004 9:50:31 PM PDT by John Jorsett
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Since I am one of three adult Americans who have hypertension, I really shouldn't be reading Krugman!

The real deceptions and lies which will be uncovered will happen when, and IF, Kerry signs the forms to release his records.

Krugman is the slimiest of the slime at The Slimes!


4 posted on 08/23/2004 9:52:25 PM PDT by Theresawithanh ( Flush the Johns in 2004!!!!!)
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To: John Jorsett

This guy doesn't even begin to know the meaning of the word "freedom".


5 posted on 08/23/2004 9:52:59 PM PDT by In veno, veritas
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To: John Jorsett
President Bush has no positive achievements to run on.

Unless you count the liberation of 50 million people and capturing or killing 2/3 of Al-Qaeda's known leadership as a "positive achievement".

6 posted on 08/23/2004 9:54:30 PM PDT by VisualizeSmallerGovernment (Question Liberal Authority)
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President Bush has no positive achievements to run on.

Um...what is this guy smoking? Or drinking?

7 posted on 08/23/2004 9:55:00 PM PDT by RockinRight (Liberalism IS the status quo)
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"...Yet making those statements was itself a heroic act..."

Tell that to the 5 million Vietnamese the Kmehr Rouge killed after we left.

8 posted on 08/23/2004 9:57:39 PM PDT by ohCompGk
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I just love to see 'rats panicking like this!


9 posted on 08/23/2004 9:58:31 PM PDT by ahadams2 (http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com is the url for the Anglican Freeper Resource Page)
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More nonsense smears from Krugman, chief Kerry cheerleader from the Slimes.

President Bush has no positive achievements to run on.

I guess liberating 50,000,000 people in 2 countries, cutting taxes, guiding the country out of a recession inherited from Clinton's economic policies, guiding the country through the first foreign attack on U.S. soil since the War of 1812, and deterring terrorist attacks since then don't qualify as "positive achievements" to idiot Krugman.

This is just the beginning. Kerry is supposed to pick up on this theme in a speech at Cooper Union in NYC tomorrow. Funny how the Slimes always seems to have tomorrow's DNC talking points today...
10 posted on 08/23/2004 9:58:47 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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"Fifteen months after George Bush strutted around in his flight suit...."

I kind of liked George Bush's "strut", didn't you? He sure looked great in that flight suit. Didn't see anyone on board turn their back on him. :)


11 posted on 08/23/2004 10:00:35 PM PDT by Gimme
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I predicted a bitter and ugly campaign too, and now Honorable Veterans have called on Kerry to be truthful about his record and he responds by suing the FEC to stop the ad, threatened to sue the group for slander/libel, demand bookstores not sell the book, demand the media not carry the ad, demand the media not report on them, demand the president to shutdown the ad/stifle free speech, demand the president denounce them, and even went so far to investigate every little blurb in their credit history, divorce proceedings, criminal files, etc to be put in a little brown book and passed around to friendly journalists to smear these veterans.

I agree with author, we should have an open and positive campaign. Tell John Kerry to answer to the charges brought by the men who served with him!

12 posted on 08/23/2004 10:01:56 PM PDT by chudogg (www.chudogg.blogspot.com)
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To: Gimme
Looked much better than Kerry's salute.
13 posted on 08/23/2004 10:03:23 PM PDT by ohCompGk
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About the only thing he didn't do was quote from pat buchanan's latest anti-Bush book.


14 posted on 08/23/2004 10:03:55 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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If it doesn't, here's the message we'll be sending to Americans who serve their country: If you tell the truth, your courage and sacrifice count for nothing.

Here's a message from an American who is serving his country: (1) You are an idiot, a lemming, and a 'girly man'. (2) Your article is a monument to emotionally charged ignorance. (3) Don't presume to lecture others about telling the truth unless you have some of it on hand.

15 posted on 08/23/2004 10:03:59 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (Don't make me roll initiative...!)
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To: ohCompGk

And Kerry needs to work on his sissy baseball toss, the hell with the botox LOL


16 posted on 08/23/2004 10:05:16 PM PDT by Gimme
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politicization of homeland security
By that he must mean the ACLU's campaign against so-called racial profiling. ;')
Airport Security
by Dennis Miller
3/15/2002
You really want airline safety? Make the airport screeners fly on a plane once a week. And if you think the rent-a-guards manning the scanners at your airport appear unfocused or distracted, you've never been to LAX. I've seen security personnel turn down the volume on the metal detectors so they can debate whether or not Yasmine Bleeth is hotter in person... Everybody quit whining. To those of you who find a pat down and a thorough investigation of your carry on luggage an invasive violation of your civil liberties... You don't like someone poking around your precious duffel bag? Try having strangers attempt to identify you by the mole on the left side of your nutsack dangling from a corn stalk in some field in Nebraska and then tell me where's the greater loss of privacy.
Civil Liberties
by Dennis Miller
February 22, 2002
Currently the ACLU is upset because Arabs and Muslims are being unfairly profiled. Unfairly? You always hear that the majority of Muslims and Arabs are law-abiding. Hey, the majority of any group is law-abiding. But you don't leave your front door wide open at night just because the odds are in your favor.

While I think some sort of profiling is necessary, I am troubled by the way it's being interpreted by the irresponsible. For example, there was Louisiana Representative John Cooksey, who called on police to pull over anyone wearing, quote,"a diaper on his head and a fan belt around it." You hear how ignorant that is? Completely overlooks the threat posed by people with a parachute around their nipples and a lemon zester dangling from their Adam's apples.

Now human rights advocates are up in non-arms about our indefinite detention of suspected terrorists. You think it's inhumane to detain them here? If we really wanted to **** 'em over, we'd send em back to Afghanistan.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

17 posted on 08/23/2004 10:06:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Unlike some people, I have a profile. Okay, maybe it's a little large...)
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Yet making those statements was itself a heroic act - and what he said then rings truer than ever.

No it wasn't. It was a cowardly act. If he had come back and said 'I participated in war crimes, I would like to face trial', that would have been a heroic act. Instead, he came back and said, 'I participated in war crimes, vote for me in November'.

People in Massachusetts must be awfully dumb.

18 posted on 08/23/2004 10:07:21 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (Don't make me roll initiative...!)
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To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment
Unless you count the liberation of 50 million people and capturing or killing 2/3 of Al-Qaeda's known leadership as a "positive achievement".

Krugman actually equates Abu Graib with the alleged atrocities of Vietnam! This is truly gall. He refutes not one point the Swiftvets have made. Not one. He offers no evidence of anything he states in the article. This is the house of cards that the left have built.

Their entire system is built upon lies:

1. America was as evil as the Communists in Russia.

2. America was the country that had imperialist designs on Vietnam.

3. America Committed the atrocities in the Vietnam War.

4. America Lost the Vietnam War on the battlefield.

5. America's true heros were John Kerry, Jane Fonda, Bill Clinton and the VVAW.

6. Bill Clinton's draft avoidance was an honorable position.

7. John Kerry will be a good President because of his experience in Vietnam.

You have to give them credit. They tell Big LIES. Lies that take knowledge, dedication and perseverance to discredit.

This election isn't just about defeating John Kerry. It is about refuting the leftist lies of 45 years.

This is why the left - and Krugman is the example here - is in such apopoleptic hysteria about the SwiftVets. The truth the Swift Vets and the POW's are telling about Kerry is about to destroy a series of leftist memes that have gone unchallenged for decades. They are imploding.

In a year we will be having serious discussions about whether or not the Democrat Party is a viable opponent to the Republicans. The immolation that is going to occur in November and at some point the Democrats are going to have to ask the questions "How did we nominate John Kerry?" "What is wrong with the DNC and the party heirarchy that we nominated such a flawed man with such easily documentable foibles?" "How are we going to beat the Republicans when we nominate a spoiled child for President - not once but FOUR TIMES?"

I hope they never figure it out!

Regards,

TS

19 posted on 08/23/2004 10:09:35 PM PDT by The Shrew (www.swiftvets.com & www.wintersoldier.com - The Truth Shall Set YOU Free!)
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>>Looked much better than Kerry's salute.<<

You mean when he reported for doody??


20 posted on 08/23/2004 10:09:49 PM PDT by sissyjane (Does Rice show up on X-Rays??)
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