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Stephen King Exhorts UMaine Grads To Stay
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Posted on 05/08/2005 5:18:59 PM PDT by rpage3
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Interesting comments by King; anyone knows which way he leans politically?
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:18:59 PM PDT
by
rpage3
To: rpage3
Big Roland Deschain Bump!
To: rpage3
He's left of center, but still a great writer in my book.
To: rpage3
He is a "not one damn dime" lefty. His work is nuttier as he ages.
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:22:43 PM PDT
by
Raffus
(Thanks to all Veterans for their service to USA.)
To: rpage3
He's your garden variety leftist.
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:23:05 PM PDT
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nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: rpage3
He tends to keep his politics pretty low-key, from what I've seen. I'm a longtime reader of his work, and have never run across him making an out and out political statement in interviews and the like.
My guess, and it's only a guess, is that he probably trends left-of-center, but not in a moonbat way.
Anyone else have more info?
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:23:43 PM PDT
by
A Jovial Cad
("A man's character is his fate." -Heraclitus)
To: bikepacker67
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:24:26 PM PDT
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A Jovial Cad
("A man's character is his fate." -Heraclitus)
To: bikepacker67
Allot of leftists are since they have NO semblance of reality. Just like actors/actresses are typically leftists. They get to act and be all kinds of people. They often forget who they really are, if they ever knew. Reality is far from their minds.
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:25:05 PM PDT
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nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: rpage3
Interesting comments by King; anyone knows which way he leans politically? He's got a reputation as a hard-core, anti-gun leftie. At the same time, he gets the idea of government confiscation of personal wealth (taxes), and anyone who has read The Stand can't help but get the sense that he knows something about the Bible. Not the grace of God necessarily, but the Bible.
Definitely a man of many contradictions.
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:25:17 PM PDT
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Euro-American Scum
(A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
To: rpage3
The last time I heard King speak at UMO he introduced Edwards to the campus. He referred to our current administration as being a bit evil. Before the primaries he donated to Dean.
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:26:22 PM PDT
by
armymarinemom
(My sons freed Iraqi and Afghanistan Honor Roll students.And we're unlikely to get a look into this t)
To: bikepacker67
He's left of center, but still a great writer in my book.He could be a card-carrying Communist who eats babies for breakfast . . . The Stand is still a kick-ass book.
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:26:31 PM PDT
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Wormwood
(Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
To: rpage3
"the best-selling author Stephen King counseled University of Maine graduates yesterday to be voracious readers,"
Book sales down?
"to donate a tenth of their earnings to worthy causes, and to carve out their careers in Maine. May 8, 2005 --> "
Does Stephen King donate this amount?
I don't think soooooo ... .
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:26:41 PM PDT
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nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: rpage3
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:28:55 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: A Jovial Cad
I'm a longtime reader of his work Are you a fan of the Dark Tower series?
To: nmh
I know that King has donated a tremendous amount of money to the community in Bangor. The city needs it.
To: A Jovial Cad
He tends to keep his politics pretty low-key, from what I've seen.Obviously you've never read Insomnia. NARAL and NOW couldn't have done a better pro-abortion piece of propaganda.
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:31:50 PM PDT
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buccaneer81
(Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
To: buccaneer81
Obviously you've never read Insomnia. NARAL and NOW couldn't have done a better pro-abortion piece of propaganda. HUH? What are you babbling about?
To: rpage3
King's a good writer and I'm a good (even rabid) fan. But he's a political leftist nutjob and a Bush basher. His wife Tabby is worse. He was not as vocal the last election as he was when Gore ran - for example, there was no DNC sponsored website called, "I Know What You Did In Texas" like there was in 2000, but he did stump hard for Dean and later sKerry/Edwards after Howard imploded.
Like I said, he's a good ... even a great writer - but, he's a major PITA politically. Shut up and write Stevo.
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:37:14 PM PDT
by
Drumbo
("Of course I have an attitude, I spent my life beating things for a living." - Drumbo Thunder)
To: A Jovial Cad
He tends to keep his politics pretty low-key, from what I've seen. I'm a longtime reader of his work, and have never run across him making an out and out political statement in interviews and the like. My guess, and it's only a guess, is that he probably trends left-of-center, but not in a moonbat way. I think he's becoming more lefty as he gets older. I used to love his books and his early ones seemed to be apolitical and sometimes even to the right a bit. But I stopped reading because more and more leftist views started cropping up in his works. I can't think of anything specifically, but it's there.
To: rpage3
King is obviously exhorting grads to stay in Maine because grads must be leaving the state for better opportunities. Maine, a blue state, has to beg people to stay because it doesn't provide the economic incentives on its own. Anyone know how high the taxes are in Maine, off hand?
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posted on
05/08/2005 5:42:20 PM PDT
by
fhayek
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