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Richard Cohen: The GOP’s unhinged Benghazi fixation
New York Daily News ^ | 05/13/2014 | Richard Cohen

Posted on 05/13/2014 1:22:42 PM PDT by presidio9

Tuning the car radio some weeks back, I heard the President denounced as a moron. I was shocked. I had reached some right-wing talker and he was carrying on about something Barack Obama had recently said — that he worries more about a nuclear attack on New York than he does about Russia. The radio guy declared that the president had given terrorists an idea. He apparently forgot that the notion of attacking New York had already occurred to them.

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I feel about the GOP as I do about the religion of others: I don’t get it.

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No one can possibly think the Obama administration knew the attack was coming and let it happen.

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ETC.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; foxnews; richardcohen
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To: PhilDragoo

Bump to all!


81 posted on 05/15/2014 3:45:41 PM PDT by potlatch ("Dream as if you'll live forever...Live as if you'll die today")
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To: Kenny Bunk
I do confess that after 15 years and 30,000 posts to FR, it does still amuse me when intellectual heavyweights still feel like observations on formatting, typos or grammar pass for essential dialog. Particularly so from those who apparently believe that the "RTFT before posting" guideline does not apply to them. For all the problems you had reading the initial post, you could have saved yourself the effort of responding, had you simply scrolled down to post 30 of this thread. But that wasn't your mission here. You wanted make sure I knew that that you think graduate degrees are a waste of time. Some are. Some are essential.

I have no idea what it is that you think I plagiarized (perhaps you're confused), but I will assure you that I worked full time during the day and went to school at night. I received an academic scholarship, and paid the rest myself. I can afford it. I happen to know this year's commencement speaker, but I won't be attending.

I posted my observations from the unique perspective of someone who actually attended a school that is a frequent topic of conversations for conservatives. Apparently you'd rather form your own benighted opinions stick to trying to convince yourself that you know everything. Best of luck with that. And smile: God loves you.

82 posted on 05/16/2014 3:07:27 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Elsie
Do ya think the GOP powers that be have learned their lesson about backing a man whose chosen religion is an anathema to a Nation of Christian voters?

Not sure how that could have been this issue when his opponent was a Muslim/atheist/religious opportunist.

83 posted on 05/16/2014 3:11:02 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

Should we assume all democrat candidates from now on are officially considered unaccountable for their actions?

By which I mean, will they openly run on the statement “I am not accountable?”


84 posted on 05/16/2014 3:13:31 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: presidio9
https://www.goodreads.com/series/57207-warriner-s-english-grammar-and-composition

http://www.library.cornell.edu/resrch/citmanage/mla

www2.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/.../citation.htm

Why no dear fellow, neither your graduate degrees nor mine are a "waste of time." However, if you are to eventually prepare a dissertation, you may find the aforementioned of some value. In fact, even a cursory glance at the information may well, in the long run, save you a great deal of time and trouble.

Praemonitus. Praemunitus.

85 posted on 05/16/2014 3:23:05 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (A gay Muslim foreigner as POTUS? Sure. What could go wrong?)
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To: Kenny Bunk

Somehow I made it through my thesis without your help. The composition is quite different from the colloquial manner of social media. But again, if lecturing people on formatting errors (as opposed to actually reading threads and contributing intelligently -or not) is the best that you can manage, then I salute your effort sir. It takes a village.

I’ll keep that link handy though. Just in case LIU ever offers my field of study and I opt to double down. Or perhaps someday I’ll change my mind and decide to become a librarian or pharmacist. Go Blackbirds.


86 posted on 05/16/2014 11:19:55 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

When faced with a choice between TWO evils; many folks opt to choose NEITHER.

Our local dogcatcher could have beat Obama...


87 posted on 05/17/2014 4:16:45 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: presidio9

I’m sure you’ve run into the occasion when a reply LOOKED good in PREVIEW; but was botched up when it actually got posted.

I sure have!

(At least that’s my cover story; and I’m sticking to it!)


88 posted on 05/17/2014 4:20:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

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89 posted on 05/18/2014 1:48:58 PM PDT by Pelham (If you do not deport it is amnesty by default.)
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To: presidio9
and I assumed (incorrectly it turns out) that HTLM formatting was not required in the post commentary.

Actually, HTML is not required. If you just post normal text with no HTML markup, FR will insert <br> and <p> elements to make it appear as typed. It will need to contain normal text line breaks (CR/LF), however.

However, if the post contains anything resembling markup, then FR leaves it as it is (after stripping out forbidden markup that might screw up the layout of the whole page, that is).

90 posted on 05/18/2014 2:22:26 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: miss marmelstein
It’s unreadable, my friend. Absolutely unreadable.

Try pasting the text of #1 into spreeder and clicking the button.

91 posted on 05/18/2014 2:37:23 PM PDT by cynwoody
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