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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-08-07 10:15 PM
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7. I don't see any meaning here... it's extended slogans and straw man arguments
Edited on Thu Nov-08-07 10:16 PM by Kurt_and_Hunter
For instance, "we" did not think after Vietnam that America could do no right, or that there was no possible use for military force (though his eagerness on that point is pretty chilling)

He is talking about a fantasy "we" in his head. America was never unified on the straw man position he posits, or on any other position.

And which really cool wars does Obama think we failed to fight because of our Vietnam hangover? I think we've fought plenty, thank you.

I used to think he was a nice, charismatic man in a little over his head. Now I am starting to see that he's a trivial egomaniac and a complete fool.

Is he so naive that he thinks Newt Gingrich would not have tried to undo a half century of progress if Bill Clinton wasn't opposing him?

This is the same self-centered, thoughtless "unity" gibberish we've been getting from David Broder for decades. Just the usual call for capitulation.
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