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Politics
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Politics
How Cheney Rolls
From an interview on GMA, posted at Politico.com:
Raddatz: “Two-thirds of Americans say [the Iraq war’s] not worth fighting.”
Dick Cheney, smiling: “So?”
Raddatz: “So? You don’t care what the American people think?”
Cheney: “No. I think you cannot be blown off course by the fluctuations in the public-opinion polls.”
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Politics, Culture 2
Marrying Belief and Behavior
When I started reading a post titled “As We Go Marching” at the Chalcedon Foundation’s blog, I felt a familiar queasiness in my gut. Would this be a suspicion-laden denunciation of a secret cabal? Or worse, a call for some quasi-militant response to the state? Well, yes and no.
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Current Affairs, Politics
Whiners Playbook
In typical po-mo style, John McCain sounded off today on Mitt Romney’s Dole comments. It’s an example of McCain borrowing the American Whiners playbook and calling Wrongheaded Moral Outrage on 2, on 2.
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Politics
Clinton’s Dystopian Vision
I usually steer clear of politics on this blog, at least, of “partisan” politics. I try to avoid slamming one politician or endorsing another, even though I’m a political junkie who follows this stuff with wanton disregard for almost all other news. But the latest from Hillary Clinton on “universal health care” is just too much.
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Quotes, Politics, Media
The People get it, why can’t the Pols?
“You people are really nuts,” she told a reporter during a phone interview. “There’s kids dying in the war, the price of oil right now — there’s better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn’t get a tip.”
Waitress Esterday, […]
