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To: 8mmMauser

In the excitement, I almost posted it a third time, gulp!


482 posted on 09/15/2007 4:20:05 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: All; amdgmary
Oh Yeah, David Weigel, sez you! You don't read the New York Times much, do you? Har... Rather than pick on Ted Olson, you would have more credibility picking on the Olson twins.

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This is a fantastically silly argument but at the end of a long week when the big question was "Do you accept David Petraeus as your personal Lord and Savior?" it's worth revisiting. Victims of national tragedies only have credibility as it extends to the issues surrounding those tragedies. The 9/11 Widows were taken seriously and gifted with loving press coverage only when they were discussing 9/11 and security matters—when they lobbied for a 9/11 Commission, for example. When some of them endorsed John Kerry, the gloves came off. The same went for Cindy Sheehan: Saintly when she was asking to meet with George W. Bush and end the war, credibility shot once she morphed into a Hugo Chavez-hugging rent-a-activist. The Terri Schiavo thing wasn't exactly a national tragedy (one person died), but her birth family haven't had much success extending their activism beyond "save our daughter" to "end euthanasia now!"

Scoundrels, to Your Refuges!

8mm

483 posted on 09/15/2007 4:28:58 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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