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Now We Know Why He Passed on the Dalai Lama
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| October 17, 2009
| Victor Davis Hanson
Posted on 10/17/2009 9:42:01 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
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Now We Know Why He Passed on the Dalai Lama [Victor Davis Hanson]
I am not a big fan of saying that officials should resign for stupid remarks. But interim White House communications director Anita Dunn's praise of Mao Zedong as a "political philosopher" is so unhinged and morally repugnant, that she should hang it up, pronto.
Mao killed anywhere from 50 million to 70 million innocents in the initial cleansing of Nationalists, the scouring of the countryside, the failed Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, Tibet, and the internal Chinese gulag. Dunn's praise of a genocidal monster was no inadvertent slip: She was reading from a written text and went into great detail to give the full context of the remark. Moreover, her comments were not some student outburst from 30 years ago; they were delivered on June 5, 2009. Her praise of Mao's insight and courage in defeating the Nationalists was offered long after the full extent of Mao's mass-murdering had been well documented. Mao killed more people than any other single mass killer in the history of civilization.
So where do all these people, so intimate with our president (Dunn is the wife of his personal lawyer), come from? A right-wing attack machine could not make up such statements as those tossed off by a Dunn or a Van Jones. There seems to be neither a moral compass nor even a casual knowledge of history in this administration. And now we have the avatars of the "new politics" claiming it's okay to praise Mao's political and philosophical insight and his supposed determination ("You fight your war, and I'll fight mine") because Lee Atwater supposedly once evoked Mao too.
Ms. Dunn should simply duck out of her D.C. suburb and ask any Tibetan or Chinese immigrant in his 70s and 80s what life was really like in Mao's China.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; anitadunn; bho44; democrats; genocide; mao; obama; socialism; vdh; victordavishanson
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posted on
10/17/2009 9:42:46 AM PDT
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greyfoxx39
(ObaMugabe is turning this country into another Zimbabwe as fast as he can with ACORN's help.)
To: greyfoxx39
The entire administration is cut from the same bolt of RED cloth.
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posted on
10/17/2009 9:43:40 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: greyfoxx39
Any time a democrat speaks well of Mother Theresa, it should be presumed she is joking.
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posted on
10/17/2009 9:43:44 AM PDT
by
stop_fascism
(Georgism is Capitalism's best, last hope)
To: greyfoxx39
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posted on
10/17/2009 9:44:06 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
(Tell Obama to STFU - Stop The Federal Usurpation.)
To: greyfoxx39
“50 million to 70 million”?
Mere child’s play compared to what Anita and her crowd want to do to America. They’re not just trying to re-make America in their own image...they want to set some new records I bet.
Stop’em before it’s too late...
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posted on
10/17/2009 9:46:16 AM PDT
by
moovova
(More coffee please...make it a double.)
To: greyfoxx39
There seems to be neither a moral compass nor even a casual knowledge of history in this administration.The estimable Mr. Hanson grants Obama too much slack: Zero & crew certainly have a moral compass and knowledge of history - they just make a conscious decision to travel south.
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posted on
10/17/2009 9:48:20 AM PDT
by
Yossarian
To: greyfoxx39
Mao killed more people than any other single mass killer in the history of civilization.But he only killed the Christians and the little people, so it's OK. /sarc/
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posted on
10/17/2009 9:54:22 AM PDT
by
aimhigh
To: greyfoxx39
I dont think this is quite fair. After all Mao killed upwards to 70 million of his own people while Obama’s friend and adviser, William Ayers indicated that only 25 million hard core capitalists “would need to be eliminated”.
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posted on
10/17/2009 10:00:26 AM PDT
by
DogBarkTree
(Support Sarah. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/sarahpalin?ref=nf)
To: greyfoxx39
I wonder if she has a Mao poster in her bedroom.
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posted on
10/17/2009 10:02:01 AM PDT
by
mowowie
To: greyfoxx39
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posted on
10/17/2009 10:03:06 AM PDT
by
sweetiepiezer
(I have a Pal in Sarah)
To: greyfoxx39
We don’t even really know who Obama is.
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posted on
10/17/2009 10:04:28 AM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: Yossarian
No Hanson is correct. This administrations membership lacks intellect, a knowledge of history etc. People often confuse cunning and glibness as intelligence, they are not the same.”The Divine One” has cunning and glibness in abundance.
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10/17/2009 10:06:09 AM PDT
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AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: greyfoxx39
I had a professor in college (in the late ‘80s) who could not contain her enthusiasm for this mass murderer. She never failed to refer to him as Chairman Mao. She gushed about how young Chinese students flashed their “Little Red Books” in the air when she was traveling (studying?) there in the ‘70s.
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10/17/2009 10:07:20 AM PDT
by
Oratam
To: moovova
well lets keep this in perspective
there have been (according to a recent accounting)
over a BILLION abortions performed in the last 50 years or so...that’s about 1000 millions
so what’s 70 million in comparison?
just about 7%
so Mao was really a moderate
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posted on
10/17/2009 10:14:29 AM PDT
by
kralcmot
(my tagline died with Terri)
To: greyfoxx39
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10/17/2009 10:15:58 AM PDT
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PGalt
To: freekitty
We dont even really know who Obama is.You haven't read Bill Ayers book, "Dreams of my Father"...or that other one, whatever it's called! LOL!
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posted on
10/17/2009 10:18:08 AM PDT
by
lonestar
(Obama is turning Bush's "mess" into a catastrophe.)
To: greyfoxx39
Halloween would be an appropriate time for this witch Dunn to fly off on her broomstick.
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posted on
10/17/2009 10:19:42 AM PDT
by
Palladin
(ACORN is a criminal enterprise.)
To: greyfoxx39
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posted on
10/17/2009 10:20:51 AM PDT
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: greyfoxx39
Seems like the
‘elites’
using the word loosely
have been breeding
terminal levels of suicidal treason for a long time.
They have this delusional notion that they can hold a blast furnace in their laps and not become crispy critters.
They’ll discover otherwise in due course.
After a LOT more bloodshed.
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posted on
10/17/2009 10:22:16 AM PDT
by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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