"On both fronts, the word that comes to mind is decadence," Ross says. True, but I would have added an f-bomb modifier, because I'm excitable that way.
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Wednesday August 22, 2007
Categories: Decline and fall
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Cleveland says: "A practical visionary like Bush..."
If Bush is the example of common sense and practicality, I'll take my chances with the academic who couldn't drive a car.
Hey, aaron, you would have a point, except for the fact that no honest person has ever called Rove an arrogant snob. In fact, Rove is self-depreciating and a believer in treating others with respect if possible, even though Democrats on the far left are vile toward him, W, Condi, et al.
Timbo, you did take your chances with an academic--for eight long years. All we got for it was a despicable exhibition of bombing Christian men, women and children (and the Chinese embassy) into the stone age; a lot of dead Americans, for years, around the world and here; a visionary failure regarding nipping it in the bud; and impeachment and disbarment for arrogance and moral failures on a grand scale. So, we still are dying and will continue to die for a long time no matter who wins in 2008. As I said in my above comments, people like Clinton are pathetic when it comes to applying common sense (e.g., stopping the violence by killing bin Laden) and applying policy--it was Clinton's policy to force a regime change in Iraq; W carried it out, just too softly from a military point of view.
We as a culture and a people deserve everything we will get from the demise of the once united America.
EVERYONE knows right and wrong, and yet, have wilingly let the sickest and most vile people rise to rule us and join us. And our country is sickened beyond healing by the political, moral and social carcinogens that have brought us to the place where demise is a good thing.
The City-States, the new countries, that will arise on the former lands of the United States of America, will have many places worth living in.
And guess what kinds of people will be living there?
The cycle of life and death of so many civilizations, that has been seen so many times before, is upon us.
And we put it on to fit.
you did take your chances with an academic--for eight long years.
I think this is the first time I have ever heard anyone refer to Bill Clinton as an "academic"!
"I think this is the first time I have ever heard anyone refer to Bill Clinton as an 'academic'!"
David, give the devil his due: Avid reader as a youngster, scholarships, Phi Beta Kappa, Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Yale Law School/Juris Doctor, governor and President. How do you think he managed to deceive most of the people most of the time, including his draft board? You don't just fall of the turnip truck and accomplish that! Remember, the term "academic" does not connote decency or morality.
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