Posted on 10/17/2004 5:18:04 PM PDT by ArmoredCav
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quoting a Brit about a war in Iraq??
A tad bit off their focus?
That says it all.
Wow! I have his book "A History of the American People" which is a very popular and well written book. I must admit... his backing of Bush is surprising to me. Wow.
I find it hard to think of a better reason to re-elect GWB.
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Excellent article! Thanks!!!
It is sad that so many in this country have the right to vote without the ability and/or inclination to understand the issues at stake...
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Thanks for posting Paul Johnson, one of the world's great living thinkers and writers.
I read his essay last week on the effect of freedom on economies - and the effect of the lack of it.
I can't improve on your excellent comment.
Thank goodness Paul Johnson "gets it."
Great article. I feel like I'm in the middle of some kind of political "Star Wars" - a battle against the Dark Side - exactly what this historian is talking about. It's hard for me to believe that more than an overwhelming majority of Americans cannot clearly and plainly see what is at stake in this election. The Future of our Country as we have known and loved it for these past two hundred some years. Pray, pray, pray for Bush's re-election!
"There is something grimly admirable about his stoicism in the face of reverses, which reminds me of other moments in history: the dark winter Washington faced in 1777-78, a time to "try men's souls," as Thomas Paine put it, and the long succession of military failures Lincoln had to bear and explain before he found a commander who could take the cause to victory. There is nothing glamorous about the Bush presidency and nothing exhilarating. It is all hard pounding, as Wellington said of Waterloo, adding: "Let us see who can pound the hardest." Mastering terrorism fired by a religious fanaticism straight from the Dark Ages requires hard pounding of the dullest, most repetitious kind, in which spectacular victories are not to be looked for, and all we can expect are "blood, toil, tears, and sweat." However, something persuades me that Bush — with his grimness and doggedness, his lack of sparkle but his enviable concentration on the central issue — is the president America needs at this difficult time. He has, it seems to me, the moral right to ask American voters to give him the mandate to finish the job he has started. "
This is one of the most fundamental correct paragraph's that I have ever read.
Bush is solid. Bush loves his God, his wife and his country.
Kerry loves himself .
He would lie about anything.
He would slur anybody .
He would use anybody.
He dances on the graves of the dead.
As Lynn Cheney has said. John Kerry is not a good man.
Anyone wishing a better understanding of the world can benefit greatly from reading Paul Johnson's great history books.
Who's the other Johnson that the liberals like to quothe?Some publisher or something.
Who's the other Johnson that the liberals like to quothe?Some publisher or something.
BTTT
How true. A check-up on the moral health of America. Hope we get a good diagnosis.
A_R
Paul Johnson got it when he left the left about 40 years ago.
This is an excellent article.
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