Posted on 01/02/2009 8:17:46 PM PST by SmithL
Summing up, let me just say that I reject, repudiate, renounce, denounce, dismiss and utterly regret 2008.
Sayonara and good riddance.
Which is not intended to convey offense toward anyone of Japanese descent, nor to serve as commentary on any but the preceding 12 months of the Gregorian calendar. Not that other calendars, including the Goddess Lunar Calendar, aren't perfectly good.
In fact, I categorically denounce any person or statement (or calendar) that disparages or causes distress to any living creature on this great planet or that serves to divide us from any other planet in this universe – or any other – and such creatures as, therein, may reside.
That being said, it is still nevertheless true that Barack Obama's middle name is Hussein.
I mention this not to cause trouble, because I categorically renounce trouble, but to cite one of the many odd utterings that defined 2008 as The Year of Denouncing and Repudiating.
Dare I say: 2008 was a veritable orgy of repudiation.
Despite our professed respect for walking the walk, talking the talk is the real deal-breaker, as the past year has made clear. It is now required that anyone seeking public office be prepared to denounce any and all who have ever said anything remotely offensive to anyone.
This is potentially quite a long list.
It is also a rather odd exercise, a sort of redemption by proxy whereby the innocent confessor, having committed no offense other than to enjoy an endorsement or association, seeks absolution through repudiation of the "guilty" party.
"If you don't like my friend, I don't like my friend."
Thus, Barack Obama sought and was granted redemption by leaving his church and distancing himself from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his spiritual adviser for 20 years
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denunciate???????
This woman is such a bore. Can we ban her cr*p from these sacred threads.
I reject, repudiate, renounce, denounce, dismiss and utterly regret Kathleen Parker.
The poor man’s Maureen Dowd.
Agreed.
# 1 on the list: Columns by Kathleen Parker.
Agreed and seconded!
As far as I’m concerned, 2008 ranks highest on the list of years when more lies were told by more criminal s**theads to more idiots who bought those lies than any other year in history. With the possible exception of 1933. In case anyone’s keeping track.
Ditto...and Peggy Noonan...and Scott McClellan...and death, cause it took Tony Snow from us...
It’s better to give no hits to Vichy Republican “pundits”—let her find an audience with the left.
I’ll start by denunciating Kathleen Parker.
She’s a self-sanctimonious elitest twit.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Kathleen Parker needs more cowbell.
Ban her? Sure, assuming b-slapping is out...
One of the losers. Bye bye, Kathleen. We’re leaving you back there in 2008.
We cold torture her too but why bother.
I'm still trying to figure out how the sub-prime mortgage fraud was a "deregulation of Wall Street."
That has to be one of the best lies of the past 50 years.
I agree.
One of the many things that we have to thank Sarah Palin for is helping to smoke out all the elitists such as Kathleen Parker and Peggy Noonan who’ve been passing themselves off as conservatives.
-ccm
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