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Trailer trash: fightin' mad, want Dubya (the “realism & idealism” of academia loses to hillbillies)
Sydney Morning Herald ^
| October 29, 2004
| Peter Hartcher
Posted on 10/28/2004 7:14:04 AM PDT by dead
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To: dead
It would not occur to this duffus that maybe, just maybe the American people just don't want a traitor to occupy the office of CIC during a time of war. Or that the people might understand that most of the job losses had to do with 9/11 and Clintoon. Or that we might understand, as bad as it is, people die in war.
What a Putz!
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:30:56 AM PDT
by
DSBull
(Liberal logic: the most mutually exclusive words in the universe!)
To: dead
Proud to be an angry hillbilly.
To: All
The author should speak for himself. Isn't much of Australia's population "Scots-Irish"?
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:31:51 AM PDT
by
milagro
To: dead
One again the "I'm smarter than you are" left gets it wrong. They never learn anything because they're so sure they're right that discussion is out of the question.
I may have grown up as so called trailer trash but my wife came from a totally different world but we're on the same page politically.
My wife grew up in a home where the mother was an accountant and the father a doctor. My wife would be a doctor herself if it weren't for men like John Edwards who make it too risky to be a doc.
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:31:59 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(We've turned the corner and we're not smokin crack.)
To: wardaddy
Here is the definitive work about these proud and ferocious people (my ancestors too!)
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:32:34 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: dead
West Virginia has one of the largest populations of veterans, per capita, in the U.S. Despite the Democrats' traditional stranglehold on our citizens' votes, more than a few are well aware of Kerry's disrespect and defamations toward themselves and their fellow veterans, and are refusing to reward him with their vote this time around.
His pro-abortion, anti-gun (no one's fooled by the goose hunt) positions haven't gone unnoticed, either.
To: Humvee
Yours maybe. I would wear a colostomy bag first.
To: dead
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:33:53 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(The only thing we share with collectivists and ragheads is death.)
To: dead
LOL! ...ever met many Australians? Australians, hillbillies--same thing. Rednecks, unite!
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:34:30 AM PDT
by
familyop
(Receive, adhere, listen, dissolve, entice and launch.)
To: AnAmericanMother
Another to add to my list ...thanks.
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:35:26 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(The only thing we share with collectivists and ragheads is death.)
To: dead
It's a group that constitutes the hardy core of the American folk, and it was introduced by the novelist and ex-Marine James Webb in these terms: "This people gave our country great things, including its most definitive culture. It is imbued with a unique and unforgiving code of personal honour less ritualised but every bit as powerful as the samurai code. At that point, I thought he was describing flyover country. The folks who love country and family, work hard, and try to live good and decent lives. A lot of immigrant groups fall into that category. Mine included. And not one word of it is a bad thing.
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:35:27 AM PDT
by
najida
(Life is too short to live without chocolate, cute shoes and naps.)
To: Corin Stormhands
Ah yes, the progressive "academia"...
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:36:12 AM PDT
by
2Jedismom
(Expect me when you see me!)
To: wardaddy
You'll enjoy this one. Fraser is the same guy who wrote the Flashman books (and my personal favorites, the MacAuslan books). He can write.
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:37:08 AM PDT
by
AnAmericanMother
(. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
To: dead
Another reminder that Australia was first settled by British criminals and lunatics.
To: coconutt2000
We can't trust the elitists but I am Scots-Irish. Actually of English/Irish/Scots ancestry. We built the early infrastructure of America. I have a friend who is of German descent and very proud of his heritage. I always ask him how it feels to have a bunch of backward, tobacco-chewing, grits eating, rednecks hillbillies come and kick arse on Germany's professional armies TWICE in one century! But regardless the fighters are country or from the streets, they sure has hell ain't from Academia or the media! People from humble backgrounds know that there are lines you do not cross and when you do there is a price to pay! What the elitists cannot grasp and understand is that President Bush speaks that language and it resonantes with the majority of plain Americans.
Why do the Irish fight amongst themselves?
Because there is no other worthier opponent!
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:38:42 AM PDT
by
7thson
(I think it takes a big dog to weigh a hundred pounds!)
To: 7thson
Why do the Irish fight amongst themselves? Island mentality is bred into their genes... There is nobody else to fight...
I'm 1/16 Irish, English, Scottish, 1/16 German-Jew, 1/8 Chinese, and 3/4 Samoan.
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:41:48 AM PDT
by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: wardaddy
Actually while he is dead wrong about Bush. His perception of this particular demographic (my own happily) has some truth....the good parts..lol If you read it carefully, you'll note that the author is not expressing his "perception" in those positive statements about the fighting Scot-Irish of America. He is quoting the thoughts of James Webb and Walter Russell Mead, then cramming their fine sentiments into his "dumb Americans" packaging.
He is trying to paint noble and brave men who fight and die for this country as moronic cannon fodder no smarter or more understanding of the reasons for the war than the horses that die beside them.
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:41:58 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
And the güber is hocking that old crusty ipsos pole. What a maroon!
C13: 100% Unrefined Tennessee Hillbilly
To: dead
This author has some things right, while he still attempts to dismiss the Appalachian culture. Us country folks do primarily wish to just work, take care of our families and live our lives as we see fit. That is descended of the spirit of this country's founding. Those who still carry that spirit, will get our backs up with we or our people are violated.
I'm not quite sure if the author sees this as an attribute, but I certainly do. The author is also neglectful in mentioning the German immigrants in this group. The Scotch, Irish and Germans all immigrated to the same areas of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio and the Carolinas and soon started marrying amongst themselves. I am of that stock, having German, Irish and Scottish on both the paternal and maternal sides.
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posted on
10/28/2004 7:43:08 AM PDT
by
Ghengis
To: dead
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