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To: MaestroLC; Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...

As the New Democrat Left and their propagandists in the Pravda Media try to establish Obamacare as “Kennedy’s lasting legacy”, recall too that “Animal Farm” began with the death of Old Major

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm

Old Major
A prize Middle White boar is the inspiration that fuels the Rebellion in the book. He is 12 years old. According to one interpretation, he could be based upon both Karl Marx, founder of modern Marxism and the base for Communism, (in that he describes the ideal society the animals could create if the humans are overthrown) and Vladimir Lenin (in that his skull is put on revered public display, as was Lenin’s embalmed corpse). However, according to Christopher Hitchens: “the persons of Lenin and Trotsky are combined into one [i.e., Snowball], or, it might even be [...] to say, there is no Lenin at all.”


44 posted on 08/26/2009 8:45:44 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ted Kennedy, you are NO J.F.K. Wrong on abortion. Wrong on taxes.)
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Old Major
A prize Middle White boar is the inspiration

Except Teddy was an Old Wide-in-the-Middle White boor...

85 posted on 08/26/2009 8:54:48 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 217 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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