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To: Borges

What do you think he’d make of our current House, Senate and Oval Office occupants?


3 posted on 04/21/2010 11:34:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (We've gone from phony soldiers to phony conservative protesters. Nothing about liberalism is genuine)
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To: a fool in paradise
What do you think he’d make of our current House, Senate and Oval Office occupants?

"All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity."

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"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

9 posted on 04/21/2010 11:37:30 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: a fool in paradise

Twain became pretty politically outspoken in the last decade of his life, notably in his opoosition to the American actions in the Philipines. He is sort of the pioneer of celebrities speaking out on political matters.


11 posted on 04/21/2010 11:38:39 AM PDT by Borges
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To: a fool in paradise

“America has no native criminal class save Congress.”


14 posted on 04/21/2010 11:40:45 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal (My respect and admiration for Cmdr. McCain are inversely proportion to my opinion of Sen. McCain.)
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To: a fool in paradise

He’d be a liberal on MSNBC, making the chattering class circuit.


38 posted on 04/21/2010 12:01:16 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (1 birth, 2 deaths; 2 births, 1 death)
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