Hey, I Feel Better Now! (Part Deux)

PY, DON'T YOU EVER REPEAT "PULLED A PALIN"

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, October 3rd at 4:52PM EST (link)

That was wrong. He pulled a Biden.

I don’t know where you live, but for you to make that statement (which I NEVER heard until you said it) makes me think you live inside the beltway.

That was an insult for me to think that.

Wake up and look in the mirror!

Pulling a Palin would only fairly mean

TELLING THE TRUTH

Gc is disappointed in you PY.

I would never make the mistake of aiding the Left on the frontpage of RS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hear me Erick

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Dissapointment

George Neitz (Diary) Friday, October 3rd at 5:12PM EST (link)

PY cmon I mean really “pull a Palin” WTF!! Really Biden is the obvious idiot on this debate and Gov.Palin showed him how it should be done.I have read your stuff for as long as I can remember (which sometimes is less than 10 minutes) and almost always agreed at least partially with you but this is just over the top.

“Socialism only works
in two places:
Heaven where they don’t
need it and hell where they already have it.”
-Ronald Reagan

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Actually, Dan Dresner said it.

Flagstaff (Diary) Friday, October 3rd at 5:13PM EST (link)

And he describes himself as a libertarian-Republican who voted for Kerry in 2004.

Apparently a sometimes-contributor to Slate, he was one of a multitude on the staff there who voted opposite the four who voted for Bush (one was an intern, FGS). A screaming indictment of SCUM bias, but who’s keeping track?

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

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I didn't write that.

Pejman Yousefzadeh (Diary) Friday, October 3rd at 5:16PM EST (link)

Drezner did. That’s why it is part of the blockquote.

“At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.” –Friedrich Nietzsche

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Give Pejman a break.

Flagstaff (Diary) Friday, October 3rd at 5:17PM EST (link)

He has to read all this stuff every day to come up with the great quotes. This one just slipped by.

We all know that Biden simply “pulled a Biden.”

“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964

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tired old eyes

George Neitz (Diary) Friday, October 3rd at 5:22PM EST (link)

Sorry to these tired old eyes it appeared as though you said it

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in two places:
Heaven where they don’t
need it and hell where they already have it.”
-Ronald Reagan

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Yes, I spoke too soon, I suspect, BUT, I also loathe

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, October 3rd at 5:42PM EST (link)

too cryptic blog posts

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my bad brother - but, sometimes, and God knows I am guilty

Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Friday, October 3rd at 5:43PM EST (link)

we can be too cryptic

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Suppose he used the word Jihad?

ivorykeyer Friday, October 3rd at 8:04PM EST (link)

To the public at large, jihad has a distinctively negative connotation, for obvious reasons. The word jihad though, from an objective definition, means a Muslim religious duty, to strive or struggle. It has been co opted by radical Islam to denote their struggle against the West, Democratic rule and any number of any other institutions they despise.

Sure, Madrasah means school. Ask Joe sixpack what they think a Madrasah is though and nine times out of ten they’re going to say something along the lines of it being some sort of radical Islamic religious school where youngsters are taught to be terrorists. Madrasah has an entirely different connotation than the word “school”, which most Americans take to mean simply as a place of education and learning.

Although technically incorrect, Biden’s point was based upon the general public connotation of the word Madrasah vs. the word school. There – was that so difficult? Partisan gotcha debate word analysis is really tiresome and probably doesn’t convince anyone to change their mind.

One final thought. People involved in a Jihad are known as mujahideen, like those the U.S. supported in Afghanistan in their efforts to get the USSR out. At this point in time, I think that the word mujahideen and the thought of the U.S. supporting them probably wouldn’t sit well with most Americans.

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

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5 - Thanks

StevenK (Diary) Friday, October 3rd at 8:39PM EST (link)

I was about to write a very similar comment, but you have made that unnecessary.

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