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Between father and son [Ellen Goodman: Conservative parents don't 'nuture'.]
The Boston Globe ^ | September 26, 2004 | By Ellen Goodman

Posted on 09/26/2004 5:27:13 AM PDT by johnny7

SOMETIMES I wonder what it must be like when the presidential son comes to Kennebunkport for a visit. Does George the Younger tell George the Elder what he tells the country? Does he say that we are safer with Saddam in prison than in power? Does he insist that we are better off having overthrown the dictator rather than containing him? I suspect it might be just a splash awkward. After all, it was dad who decided not to topple the Iraqi when he was on the run. It was George the 41st who believed that the chaos might be worse than containment. When another and another car bomb goes off in Baghdad, does this most discreet father ever want to say: I told you so?

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ellengoodman
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“But they have a (forgive me) nuanced view of the world in which security is not just calculated by body counts but also by the changing minds of those who can become either tomorrow's terrorists or democrats.”

OK... now I know what 'nuanced' means to a socialist-progressive. It means that terrorists and democrats are really not that different!

The terrorists just need to be convinced, by 'nuturing' socialist-progressives, that there are better 'life-choices' out there to choose from!!

Thank you Ellen... you vapid, condescending bitch!

1 posted on 09/26/2004 5:27:13 AM PDT by johnny7
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To: johnny7
ELLEN GOODFORNOTHING ALERT!!!


2 posted on 09/26/2004 5:30:33 AM PDT by zarf
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To: johnny7
Dowd, Goodman and their ilk need to live for a year under Taliban conditions and then write about their experiences.

Their soft life cushions reality.

3 posted on 09/26/2004 5:31:33 AM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (Anybody but Kerry!!)
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"After all, it was dad who decided not to topple the Iraqi when he was on the run."

Uh, no. That was decided long before we invaded, and was actually a precondition to Arab support.

When will you libs ever get it right?

4 posted on 09/26/2004 5:31:34 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen

Never.


5 posted on 09/26/2004 5:32:48 AM PDT by SirLurkedalot (REMEMBER!)
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To: johnny7

Wondering when the last encounter with a clue she had was


6 posted on 09/26/2004 5:35:43 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Free Republic = PNN = Pajama News Network)
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To: robertpaulsen

Exactly.


7 posted on 09/26/2004 5:37:37 AM PDT by doodad
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To: NRA1995

Great question!


8 posted on 09/26/2004 5:38:30 AM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL on issues of national security for two decades)
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To: johnny7

I suspect the main difference between liberals and conservatives is that the latter know who there father is.


9 posted on 09/26/2004 5:40:15 AM PDT by Nosterrex
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To: zarf
Shouldn't the dancing spideys be for the Ron Reagan alert?
10 posted on 09/26/2004 5:43:30 AM PDT by Shqipo (The gloves are on and the corners are empty.)
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To: johnny7

If I had "nurturing" parents like Ellen, I would still be running from the bullies I ran from when I was 8 years old. My great grandmother once locked me out of her house to force me to confront a bully.

I got my butt kicked, but the bullying stopped and the bully and I have been friends for nearly 30 years.


11 posted on 09/26/2004 5:47:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The economy won't matter if you're dead.)
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To: johnny7

What the Elder Bush says and doesn't say to the Younger (President) Bush has been written up and published numerous times. Ellen Goodman doesn't give a rats ass. She far prefers her own world of elitist, ignorant spin.


12 posted on 09/26/2004 5:47:01 AM PDT by Alia
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Mizzzz Goodman was very nurturing toward her adopted son, which is why he self-immolated out at UMass before Gulf War I.


13 posted on 09/26/2004 5:47:47 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: cripplecreek

If memory serves me correctly, very tragically -- Ellen Goodman's son committed suicide years ago. Very sad situation. Perhaps she's not gotten over it yet; possibly also blames "Bush" for her son's suicide? It'd be part and parcel of the lib philosophy...


14 posted on 09/26/2004 5:48:20 AM PDT by Alia
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"Mizzzz Goodman was very nurturing toward her adopted son, which is why he self-immolated out at UMass before Gulf War I."

Is this true? is there more to the story? I hadn't heard that one. How sad.

15 posted on 09/26/2004 5:52:21 AM PDT by kimchi lover (When will the left learn that Bush is NOT the enemy?)
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To: Alia

No,in 1991 she would have blamed Reagan. Remember, everything was Reagan's fault until he died and that mantle was passed to W. NOW, everything is Bush's fault.


16 posted on 09/26/2004 5:54:11 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 ( Kerry's not "one of us": catholicsagainstkerry.com. needs your help.)
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"After all, it was dad who decided not to topple the Iraqi when he was on the run."

Once again, Liberals have to lie about an historical event in order to try and make their outrageous point.

It was the U.N. that made us leave Iraq intact with Saddam remaining as dictator, not the President Bush or General Swartzkoff (sp?). They wanted to march straight to Bagdad.


17 posted on 09/26/2004 5:55:47 AM PDT by moonman
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What a great country.

There are enough leftist news services around so that anyone with an IQ of 80 (or below) can write columns and actually be paid money for the effort.

18 posted on 09/26/2004 5:56:35 AM PDT by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
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Conservatives subscribe to the "strict father model" while liberals abide by the "nurturant parent model."

LOL! You are evil and I envy you. ;)

19 posted on 09/26/2004 5:58:40 AM PDT by TheGeezer
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To: jmaroneps37
Which only proves the conservative argument-- that liberals aren't fully alive nor adult, in any way.

Liberals, over the past 30 years have broken EVERY SINGLE CODA of civility -- and yet they now demand to be "respected"; and whine ad nauseum about "oh.. how uncivil our "communities", "our world" has become".

20 posted on 09/26/2004 6:02:08 AM PDT by Alia
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