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Not sure whether this is a column, op-ed or letter to the editor, writing style suggests options 1 or 2. The point is, I don't see similar material coming fron conservative columnists and op-ed writers. My thougt, an indication we're winning the war of ideas.

Lots of funny observations like "Much has been made of late of the unlikely bed-partners at these marches -- how the merely conscientious must sit through the orations of the terminally consternated."

Or maybe it's Friday and I'm just (very) pleasantly buzzed. Take a poll.

1 posted on 01/31/2003 6:09:46 PM PST by Gothmog
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To: Gothmog
But lately, instead of inspiring me, the left keeps making me feel awful about the world.

Well, good morning sleepy head. 'Bout time you woke up.

2 posted on 01/31/2003 6:12:47 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I will defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: Gothmog
Gitlin is a Berkeley 60s radical who supported and defended the crazies of that era. I believe he is now teaching legal ethics, an irony which is worth a few laughs to those who know him.
3 posted on 01/31/2003 6:15:24 PM PST by gaspar
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To: Gothmog
"Hold on a minute, you mean to tell me that this "cheese-like food product isn't actually cheese?"

Another one emerges from the ether.

Chip, chip, chip.

4 posted on 01/31/2003 6:22:08 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Gothmog
"The caller can't possibly remember Neville Chamberlain going to Berlin," said the eagle-eyed professor, "because Chamberlain went to Munich."

The professor, worrying about syntax and minutae, missed - or rather made - the point that Chamberlain went to Germany. Tell us, prof, what was accomplished in Munich?

6 posted on 01/31/2003 6:34:37 PM PST by NonValueAdded
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To: Gothmog
The retreat into the combative and the adversarial is the left's self-inflicted wound. It saves thinking.

I get the broad sense that the "antiwar" coalition was an integral part of the Democratic constituency that was just waiting for a chance to (1) form solidarity, (2) jump on Bush, and (3) persuade itself that it was still the sole repository of conscience in the United States, just as it was erroneously convinced was the case during Vietnam. This places them, in this case at least, in the position of defending everything they are ostensibly against, i.e. fascism, dictatorship, nuclear weapons, religious extremism...and they don't care. To be united and against the Republicans is sufficient. It is a sad, superficial, and ultimately self-defeating reflex.

7 posted on 01/31/2003 6:34:46 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Thud
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11 posted on 01/31/2003 8:08:20 PM PST by Dark Wing
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To: Gothmog; joanie-f; JeanS; snopercod; Clive; mommadooo3
A friend of mine recently informed a certain friend of hers --- that friend being a leftist, Democrat, union member who fancies himself to be "open minded" --- that said leftist is the most rigid, narrow-minded person she has ever met.

He was stunned.

There is no longer any "left" which favors the Unites States of America; there is only The Party and Its Followers --- the Fascist Nationalizing Socialist ("FNS") officially known as the Democrat Party.

That Party is "miles away" from the "man on the street" and from the average "Reagan Democrat," yet the Party still requires such Americans' vote.

Still, the Party is fascist, which is why it supports world fascism, such as that in Iran, North Korea, Iraq, and Cuba --- which are quaint geographical regions wherein The Party is to whom absolute obedience is required.

The countries mean nothing, but to the people.

Hillary Clinton is a fascist, and she is running for President, not to mention amassing a media empire which will include a significant portion of the faltering Time Warner ... if anybody over at The Washington Times would care to notice and write about it, that is, her.

Hillary Clinton vicariously is one of the largest propaganda moguls in the world. No cash will be found directly tied to her, but her followers are utterly sworn to her, their efforts; for example, Mr. Daley now at SBC.

Hillary is the single most powerful force which is scaring young people, especially women, into thinking that a vote for a Republican candidate is a vote for abject surrender.

When you stand in the checkout line at the shopping center, almost everywhere in the U.S.A., and you see the stacks of publications for sale ... the distributor of those publications and making quite a lot of money at it, is not Hillary herself, but her minions.

It's kinda like this: Hitler's NAZI Party did not own the means of production in Germany and oft times is excused from being identified as socialist, which it was; but the atmosphere conducive to life inside the Third Reich, required all "private enterprise" answering to "the board of directors."

Hillary is the chairman of the board of a vast left-wing extremist, fascist, nationalizing socialist empire around the world, wherein The Party is supreme, and she's at the top of it.

Follow the money.

13 posted on 02/01/2003 12:30:51 AM PST by First_Salute
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To: Gothmog
good read
14 posted on 02/01/2003 12:40:54 AM PST by woofie (I dont believe in this tag line crap)
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To: Gothmog
" a know-it-all style of dark grievance-dom that has increasingly come to define the peace movement left."

When living in a dung heap, everything tends to look and smell like dung.

19 posted on 02/06/2003 6:00:04 PM PST by Ches
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To: Gothmog
Another great oldie:

I have the fantasy of a progressive cause with no Youth and Student Coordinator, no West Coast Representative, no brother from the movement in the country to the south and no presumption that words like Solidarity, Network, Action and Uprising are always to be treated as gospel, the code words that say we are all the same.

22 posted on 07/07/2003 3:11:43 AM PDT by GOPJ
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