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To: slowhandluke

Calvin Coolidge was no ‘do-nothing.’
He was merely a man of little words.
In fact, I am reminded of a quote from him when thinking of the rhetorical failures of both Barack 0bama and Sarah Palin:

“The words of a President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.”


94 posted on 06/26/2009 3:22:14 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: counterpunch
A lesson in reading comprehension.

"B-actor" and "hick" and "do-nothing" were labels other folks appended to Reagan, Jackson and Coolidge respectively during their political careers. I didn't invent them, nor did my post commend them as being true. Though, indeed, compared to Teddy Roosevelt before or Wilson after, Coolidge was a do-nothing president, which I do applaud.

100 posted on 06/26/2009 3:31:27 PM PDT by slowhandluke (It's hard work to be cynical enough in this age)
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To: counterpunch

Enough! Put a sock in it fool.


187 posted on 06/27/2009 5:47:42 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH
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