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To: jazusamo; All

“this luftmentsh...)

How perfectly perfect. We should use this to identify The One -

“A luftmentsh in Yiddish (the best colloquial English translation might be “airhead,” since an “airman” is an aviator) is a person of impractical nature who lives more in vague hopes and unrealizable plans than in social and economic realities and — however intelligent or charming he may be...”

http://cambridgeforecast.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/luftmensch-max-nordau/


16 posted on 11/04/2012 10:41:21 AM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does.)
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To: maine-iac7

The definition of luftmentsh couldn’t describe the turkey in the WH much better.


21 posted on 11/04/2012 11:31:53 AM PST by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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