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The American Spectator ^ | 09-03-05 | Ben Stein

Posted on 09/03/2005 10:16:01 AM PDT by smoothsailing

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To: Prophet in the wilderness

I heard that speech - it was on a Monday night. I was speechless -- best monologue I've heard ANYONE give - and it was spontaneous.

By the way, here's a good that goes with your tagline: Cartoon: Two fleas were on a dog - dog hair all around them. One flea said to the other: "There is no dog."


141 posted on 09/03/2005 12:01:42 PM PDT by bethtopaz (We will not allow another generation of heroes to be forsaken. -- NewLand, from Free Republic)
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To: Natty Boh III
We know the federal response (and neighboring state's National Guard) didn't wait. The process involves evaluation, logistics and movement. Remember that a large part of the Gulf Coast was devastated Sunday night/Monday morning and New Orleans was celebrating a near miss Monday....until the levees broke.

Mississippi and Alabama were hard hit; their local and state people went to work, their respective governors called for federal assistance right away. Not the case in Louisiana. Nagin headed for the cameras. Blanco ....I don't know. Maybe she couldn't find the phone. It seems relief plans were delayed by CYA plans.

142 posted on 09/03/2005 12:01:43 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (I once opposed keelhauling but recently have come to my senses.)
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To: Zack Nguyen
To make it even more plain, terrorists have tried to kill him before. Is it fair to risk the lives of every other member of the church on a weekly basis? If Bush did attend services, he would take hordes of criticism. It would be unrelenting.

There are plenty of Bush hating radical kooks who would try to kill him, too. Just look at some of their websites sometime.

143 posted on 09/03/2005 12:01:53 PM PDT by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: bethtopaz

Ben Stein in 2008!

...
yeah, there ya go.

;)


144 posted on 09/03/2005 12:02:02 PM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: Rebelbase
He doesn't apologize, has even said he never has to apologize... well then, has he ever apologized to God for anything? If he can't apologize to his fellow man, why should we believe he can apologize to God?
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"I did not have sex with that woman..."

145 posted on 09/03/2005 12:02:05 PM PDT by Mr Sockhead
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To: Natty Boh III
but where is the Homeland Security Disaster response?

If I had any management responsibility in the Homeland Security Department I would be worried about a concurrent terrorist attack elsewhere.

146 posted on 09/03/2005 12:03:16 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: used2BDem

look at this way, used2BDem, it could have been any one of the DUmmies. Heck, he could be a troll, and it could have been him -- just trying to distract from Ben Stein's fantastic article!


147 posted on 09/03/2005 12:03:46 PM PDT by bethtopaz (We will not allow another generation of heroes to be forsaken. -- NewLand, from Free Republic)
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To: smoothsailing

"If the energy the news media puts into blaming Bush for an Act of God worsened by stupendous incompetence by the New Orleans city authorities and the malevolence of the criminals of the city were directed to helping the morale of the nation, we would all be a lot better off."


Amen.


148 posted on 09/03/2005 12:05:05 PM PDT by SueRae
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To: Rebelbase

Is that the guy who used to run theforce.net? I know there was some freeper who did.


149 posted on 09/03/2005 12:05:30 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Constitutional Patriot
I guess the brainiac who wrote this nonsense already forgot about the boy from Hope, Arkansas, a mere administration ago...what a tool. Must be a writer from the NYT.

Oh, well, thats different. If you are a DUmbocrat and get to be president, it was by your own merits. Only Republicans get special priviliges. (sarc)

150 posted on 09/03/2005 12:05:39 PM PDT by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: SunnySide

Stein/Rice '08 - even better!


151 posted on 09/03/2005 12:05:48 PM PDT by bethtopaz (We will not allow another generation of heroes to be forsaken. -- NewLand, from Free Republic)
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To: Responsibility1st

It was Dan Rather, right?


152 posted on 09/03/2005 12:08:28 PM PDT by Paulus Invictus
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To: bethtopaz

See his post at 120.


153 posted on 09/03/2005 12:09:47 PM PDT by used2BDem (Navy Vet (Navy Mom))
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To: Rebelbase; Darth Sidious
He posted an opus on his home page.

Why doesn't he have the stones to come out with it on forum - get his @$$ kicked verbally - and go away with class and dignity?

154 posted on 09/03/2005 12:12:37 PM PDT by Responsibility1st (Figure out what you would die for...then live for it. -Anne Rivers Siddons)
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To: CFC__VRWC
No, they're just about as purely evil as a human being can get. They want to see the Islamonazis hoisting his daughters' heads up in front of a camera for the media to eagerly broadcast all over the world. Just like they want to see (though they cannot admit it) poor black people on the Gulf Coast die by the tens of thousands. The reason they want these things is because they want to hurt him in the worst way imaginable. This is just how deep and insane their hatred has become. His daughters, and all of those people whose lives were ravaged by Katrina, are merely tools in their twisted minds to use to get at him and hurt him. If they had a chance they would torture him to death over a period of many days and force us all to watch it. And then once he died and they finished dragging his corpse through the streets for the howling mobs to kick and beat on, they'd start coming after everyone of us who ever supported him to give us the exact same treatment.

You nailed it! We should be very afraid. Because we are only a Democrat in the White House away from this. The bible predicts it.

155 posted on 09/03/2005 12:13:16 PM PDT by beckysueb (God bless America and President Bush.)
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To: Cool Multiservice Soldier

I guess, even if President Bush got a military sleeping cot, a pillow, a blanket and bunked out with the buried dead soldiers and the marble crosses at Arlington Virgina National cemetery for one week would still not be enough for the liberals, and their BS claims that he does not visit enough burial sights of the dead US troops.


156 posted on 09/03/2005 12:17:06 PM PDT by Prophet in the wilderness (PSALM 53 : 1 The FOOL hath said in his heart , There is no GOD .)
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To: defconw

with a 20 oz framing hammer


157 posted on 09/03/2005 12:20:11 PM PDT by snuffy smiff ("the theory of Communism may be summed up in a single sentence:abolition of private property"-K.Marx)
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To: Rebelbase

Jimmah Carter?


158 posted on 09/03/2005 12:24:09 PM PDT by RBroadfoot
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To: SueRae; Fester Chugabrew
That is by far the best of many good points Ben Stein makes in the piece.

The American media undermines the very freedom it must have to exist.

159 posted on 09/03/2005 12:24:55 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Democrats are like blisters,they always pop up after the hard work is done)
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To: Rebelbase

well thank the Lord he had enough class to excrete himself from within our midst(and good riddance)

But by reading this drivel now I can see he has absolutely no class left at all...


160 posted on 09/03/2005 12:27:31 PM PDT by snuffy smiff ("the theory of Communism may be summed up in a single sentence:abolition of private property"-K.Marx)
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