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The Osama Litmus Test
NY Times ^ | October 30, 2004 | DAVID BROOKS

Posted on 10/30/2004 5:38:01 AM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 10/30/2004 5:38:02 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

Sometimes David Brooks infuriates me, he seems to vacillate, but this is a first-rate editorial and I hope it gets a wide reading from the typical NYT readers.


2 posted on 10/30/2004 5:43:51 AM PDT by SE Mom (Happy RedSox Republican!)
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To: neverdem
This was in the NY Times? Must have been typed in very small print in an unnoticeable section.
3 posted on 10/30/2004 5:44:06 AM PDT by Taggart_D
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To: neverdem
"When it comes to Osama bin Laden, Kerry hasn't revealed whatever it is that lies inside. "

He hasn't revealed it because even he don't know.

And even if he did, it would change by the next shift in the wind.

4 posted on 10/30/2004 5:45:59 AM PDT by realpatriot (Some spelling errors may have been intentionally included)
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To: neverdem

David Brooks and Bill Safire are the ONLY voices of reason left at the NY Slimes. In fact, I feel that in the closing weeks of the election campaign, Brooks has been more effective than Safire in rebutting his deranged leftist fellow op-ed columnists like Krugman and Dowd.

Brooks is an op-ed columnist. He does not reflect the editorial spin of the Times itself. He is a lonely voice of moderate reason that is allowed to voice his opinion in the Times. And this was a great column.

Just dont stay around long enough to read any of Krugman or Dowd tomorrow.... you may want to barf up your entire Halloween dinner.


5 posted on 10/30/2004 5:47:27 AM PDT by UncleSamUSA (the land of the free and the home of the brave)
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To: neverdem

good post


6 posted on 10/30/2004 5:48:40 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: neverdem
That was the interview in which he said Sept. 11 "didn't change me much at all."

I've had this tagline since before Kerry said that.
7 posted on 10/30/2004 5:48:48 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (If 9/11 didn't change you, you're a bad human being)
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To: neverdem
Kerry: [Bush] didn't choose to use American forces to hunt down Osama bin Laden. He outsourced the job.

What a deceitful guy Kerry is....

We all know that John "Nuisance" Kerry wants us to outsource all our wars.

His first impulse is to invite the UN to tell us what to do.

A FRENCH START
FOR AMERICA
Kerry / Edwards

8 posted on 10/30/2004 5:50:47 AM PDT by syriacus (Nuance? 'Tis the gift to be simple..to be free..to come down where we ought to be.)
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To: neverdem

This portion of OBL's speech wasn't aired on television; might give a boost to Bush's campaign and Old Media certainly doesn't want that:

But after we were so fed up, and we saw the oppression of the American Israeli coalition on our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind and the incidents that really touched me directly goes back to 1982 and the following incidents. When the US permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon with the assistance of the 6th fleet. In these ha


9 posted on 10/30/2004 5:51:27 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed)
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10 posted on 10/30/2004 5:51:32 AM PDT by Rome2000 (The ENEMY for Kerry!!!)
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To: neverdem

One theme that must be played up is the basic tenet of Osama message. he hates Israel, hates Jews and wants them and anyone supporting them destroyed. To excuse, coddle or even send messages that are in agreement with Osama (like Michael Moore, Patty Murray, Jim Mcdermott, and many supporters of John Kerry) is to be an anti semite. American will no longer tolerate anti-Semitism and it needs to be called out. It is not really different than benabling the KKK in this day and time. This anti-semitic appeasement and enablingis position the RATS have alligned themselves with in being completely tepid on 9/11 and Osama and in making statements that undermine our recoignition of Osaam's evil intent.


11 posted on 10/30/2004 5:53:11 AM PDT by rod1 (uired 4 more hours).)
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To: neverdem

Please G-d, let Bush be reelected... I am more and more afraid... If sKerry is elected, it will be the end of the West!


12 posted on 10/30/2004 6:06:17 AM PDT by Pitiricus
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Amen...

But look at all my political idiot co-religionists that will vote for sKerry... as the Italian Jews voted en masse for Mussolini!


13 posted on 10/30/2004 6:07:18 AM PDT by Pitiricus
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This would go down in history as a time when Bin Laden made America Kowtow to his threats, America would never be the same again, President Bush must be re elected, otherwise, its all for nothing. Kerry will make America weak in the world.
14 posted on 10/30/2004 6:17:41 AM PDT by lillybet
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To: Taggart_D
This was in the NY Times? Must have been typed in very small print in an unnoticeable section.
This column actually only appeared in the Tuvaluan Language Edition of the Slimes.

All 11,000 speakers of that language were potentially very impressed by the logic of this piece.

15 posted on 10/30/2004 6:23:33 AM PDT by samtheman (www.swiftvets.com)
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To: UncleSamUSA

Thanks for describing Brooks and Safire for the readers of this thread. Safire still has another shot before Election Day!


16 posted on 10/30/2004 6:23:43 AM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)
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To: lillybet

I am so afraid by now, I am a nervous wreck...

sKerry elected would be the end of the West!


17 posted on 10/30/2004 6:25:33 AM PDT by Pitiricus
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To: realpatriot

Actually, democrats ARE defined by what they hate, and it isn't hidden at all.


18 posted on 10/30/2004 6:27:31 AM PDT by js1138 (D*mn, I Missed!)
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To: Peach

One thing that struck me odd with this tape was the seeming lack of the "May Allah be Praised" lines that seemed to uttered after every sentence in previous tapes/videos. Anybody else notice that?


19 posted on 10/30/2004 6:30:15 AM PDT by L`enn
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If your campaign speech is eerily similar to Osama's latest terror missive .... you are not for the United States!

John Kerry and Osama can go straight to hell!
20 posted on 10/30/2004 6:33:28 AM PDT by farsighted
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