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	<title>Comments on: The Prize as Propaganda: President Obama and Amira Hass</title>
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		<title>By: IndoEuropean</title>
		<link>http://pjmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/10/09/the-prize-as-propaganda-president-obama-and-amira-hass/#comment-17435</link>
		<dc:creator>IndoEuropean</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another Video - this definitively tells a lot/everything about Obama&#039;s Prize: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BjF5XQ4TAo</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another Video &#8211; this definitively tells a lot/everything about Obama&#8217;s Prize: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BjF5XQ4TAo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BjF5XQ4TAo</a></p>
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		<title>By: Abby</title>
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		<dc:creator>Abby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Phyllis,
I think Amira Hass is an ideal candidate to receive this prize.  I find her reporting accurate and well-founded.  She’s a courageous journalist – going where others fear to go, confronting the powers that be on all sides, Israeli and Palestinian.  I’ve seen footage of her confronting the Palestinian leaders and holding them accountable for their promises to their people.  It&#039;s exactly as you said: &quot;Hass has sometimes also criticized certain Palestinian policies and leaders.&quot;  

I’m Jewish, and I believe Israel is an apartheid state, strictly separating Jews and Palestinians – building an 8-meter-high separation wall;  building Jewish-only roads;  demolishing Palestinian homes and allowing Jews to live there;  having different laws for Jewish and Palestinian Israelis. 

Your commentary is misleading. For example: Ramallah and Gaza are not “Judenrein.” – this word refers to areas from which the Nazis got rid of Jews, expelling them.  Israeli Jews chose not to live in Palestinian towns – they were not expelled from them.  There never was a large number of Jews in either town to begin with.  

I object to your personal attack on Hass.  Object to her opinions, by all means,  but this is uncalled for:  Hass is “perhaps unconsciously seeking “special” treatment for themselves in any future Islamist Reich.”   
Let us raise the level of debate to reasoned, non-hyperbolic language.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Phyllis,<br />
I think Amira Hass is an ideal candidate to receive this prize.  I find her reporting accurate and well-founded.  She’s a courageous journalist – going where others fear to go, confronting the powers that be on all sides, Israeli and Palestinian.  I’ve seen footage of her confronting the Palestinian leaders and holding them accountable for their promises to their people.  It&#8217;s exactly as you said: &#8220;Hass has sometimes also criticized certain Palestinian policies and leaders.&#8221;  </p>
<p>I’m Jewish, and I believe Israel is an apartheid state, strictly separating Jews and Palestinians – building an 8-meter-high separation wall;  building Jewish-only roads;  demolishing Palestinian homes and allowing Jews to live there;  having different laws for Jewish and Palestinian Israelis. </p>
<p>Your commentary is misleading. For example: Ramallah and Gaza are not “Judenrein.” – this word refers to areas from which the Nazis got rid of Jews, expelling them.  Israeli Jews chose not to live in Palestinian towns – they were not expelled from them.  There never was a large number of Jews in either town to begin with.  </p>
<p>I object to your personal attack on Hass.  Object to her opinions, by all means,  but this is uncalled for:  Hass is “perhaps unconsciously seeking “special” treatment for themselves in any future Islamist Reich.”<br />
Let us raise the level of debate to reasoned, non-hyperbolic language.</p>
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		<title>By: Now and Then</title>
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		<dc:creator>Now and Then</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>105 gum:

tick tock . . . spread the risk, gus, spread the risk.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>105 gum:</p>
<p>tick tock . . . spread the risk, gus, spread the risk.</p>
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		<title>By: goy</title>
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		<dc:creator>goy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;@104. Now and Then:&lt;/b&gt; - Saying it twice don’t make it so.&lt;/i&gt;

Get a calculator. You obviously need help adding 1 + 0.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><b>@104. Now and Then:</b> &#8211; Saying it twice don’t make it so.</i></p>
<p>Get a calculator. You obviously need help adding 1 + 0.</p>
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		<title>By: Now and Then</title>
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		<dc:creator>Now and Then</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>103. goo

Saying it twice don&#039;t make it so. Man up. Mr. G. Time&#039;s running out on your boyhood excuses.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>103. goo</p>
<p>Saying it twice don&#8217;t make it so. Man up. Mr. G. Time&#8217;s running out on your boyhood excuses.</p>
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		<title>By: goy</title>
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		<dc:creator>goy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;@101. David S:&lt;/b&gt; - ... get someone to read and explain my comment ...&lt;/i&gt;

Not necessary. The complete lack of serious thought in your sophomoric sputum was self-evident.

.

&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;@100. Now and Then:&lt;/b&gt; - Assumes facts not in evidence.&lt;i&gt;

Hardly. Trying doing some research on your little pal Zippy and stop assuming everyone is as ignorant as you are.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><b>@101. David S:</b> &#8211; &#8230; get someone to read and explain my comment &#8230;</i></p>
<p>Not necessary. The complete lack of serious thought in your sophomoric sputum was self-evident.</p>
<p>.</p>
<p><i><b>@100. Now and Then:</b> &#8211; Assumes facts not in evidence.</i><i></p>
<p>Hardly. Trying doing some research on your little pal Zippy and stop assuming everyone is as ignorant as you are.</i></p>
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		<title>By: ReConUSMC</title>
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		<dc:creator>ReConUSMC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>96. David S:
@93. goy:

You really should get someone to read and explain Krauthammer’s essay for you. Plenty of interesting phrases there for you and your fellow marxist, fake-ex-military travelers and useful co-idiots to cherry-pick, cite out-of-context and lie about.

Krauthammer’s self-contradictory attempt at justifying the notion that America owns the world is just another piece of evidence that the conservative movement has lost all contact with reality. First he claims nothing is inevitable, and in the next paragraph he cites an example of inevitable decline. He couldn’t be less coherent if he tried.

The moral leadership America offers the world is in the ideas and ideals that we embody – we lost our role as the world’s moral leader by violating our own standards, and the only way to rebuild American prestige is to return to the truths upon which our country was founded.

This kind of hand-wringing is expected from folks like Krauthammer, who really have no deep appreciation for American values.

Peace.
***************************************
******* First of Charles K has three Doctorates and YOU ...MR WET BEHIND THE EARS . YOU ONLY THROUGH ROCKS AS CHARLES K ..... NO FACTS OR SANE ARGUMENTS . BUT OF COURSE YOU CAN&#039;T SENCE YOUR A RADICAL SOCIALIST PROBABLY LIVING OFF OF DADDY .

There is no  &quot;Peace &quot; though Coward behavior or being  Pacifist . There is however Peace though strength HISTORY has shown us  .
Name one major war that has been won though  Kiss Butt or avoided  ! 
*********************
You really should get someone to read and explain Krauthammer’s essay for you. Plenty of interesting phrases there for you and your fellow marxist, fake-ex-military travelers and useful co-idiots to cherry-pick, cite out-of-context and lie about.

****No You should !!!
 Krauthammer didn&#039;t  lie at all in fact he revealed the Historic . facts and whys ... The Left argument as is yours  is always  based on What Ifs ,spin , Lies deceit , Emotions   and feeling .
Much like a women on a period once a month 
***********************


His twisted logic implies that morality can be imposed at the end of a gun, and that this is not only acceptable, but preferable to diplomacy. The truth is that American military dominance is not a sustainable means to ensure global prosperity.

You Dumbo _twisted Logic ??????? Ya Right ! 
The end of a Gun saved this World twice and kept us  save with Russia and China ever sense WW2 .
When an if the World is not policed by America it will be the wild west days of the 1800.s .
Nato is a Joke as is the UN at defending anything unless you like rape and robbery like the UN BLUE HELMETS DID ALL OVER AFRICA RECENTLY .
There are 157 Radical Moslem terrorist groups world wide ..... 27 Marxist groups like Shinning Path and of course Iran and N Korea stirring the pot the UN does jack over you fool . 
As for economics ? Are you a child .... When the Dollar is not the trade Currency that will hurt America badly .... Oh wait that is what you as a anti American radical socialist and Obama wants for America .
Silly me .
It is sad you hate America ..... Might I suggest Iran ,  Russia , China , Nam , Cuba , Venezuela  , Mexico , Africa and Pakistan 


*****Are you on Drugs or just stupid or beyond Naive 
You must live in a Cave .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>96. David S:<br />
@93. goy:</p>
<p>You really should get someone to read and explain Krauthammer’s essay for you. Plenty of interesting phrases there for you and your fellow marxist, fake-ex-military travelers and useful co-idiots to cherry-pick, cite out-of-context and lie about.</p>
<p>Krauthammer’s self-contradictory attempt at justifying the notion that America owns the world is just another piece of evidence that the conservative movement has lost all contact with reality. First he claims nothing is inevitable, and in the next paragraph he cites an example of inevitable decline. He couldn’t be less coherent if he tried.</p>
<p>The moral leadership America offers the world is in the ideas and ideals that we embody – we lost our role as the world’s moral leader by violating our own standards, and the only way to rebuild American prestige is to return to the truths upon which our country was founded.</p>
<p>This kind of hand-wringing is expected from folks like Krauthammer, who really have no deep appreciation for American values.</p>
<p>Peace.<br />
***************************************<br />
******* First of Charles K has three Doctorates and YOU &#8230;MR WET BEHIND THE EARS . YOU ONLY THROUGH ROCKS AS CHARLES K &#8230;.. NO FACTS OR SANE ARGUMENTS . BUT OF COURSE YOU CAN&#8217;T SENCE YOUR A RADICAL SOCIALIST PROBABLY LIVING OFF OF DADDY .</p>
<p>There is no  &#8220;Peace &#8221; though Coward behavior or being  Pacifist . There is however Peace though strength HISTORY has shown us  .<br />
Name one major war that has been won though  Kiss Butt or avoided  !<br />
*********************<br />
You really should get someone to read and explain Krauthammer’s essay for you. Plenty of interesting phrases there for you and your fellow marxist, fake-ex-military travelers and useful co-idiots to cherry-pick, cite out-of-context and lie about.</p>
<p>****No You should !!!<br />
 Krauthammer didn&#8217;t  lie at all in fact he revealed the Historic . facts and whys &#8230; The Left argument as is yours  is always  based on What Ifs ,spin , Lies deceit , Emotions   and feeling .<br />
Much like a women on a period once a month<br />
***********************</p>
<p>His twisted logic implies that morality can be imposed at the end of a gun, and that this is not only acceptable, but preferable to diplomacy. The truth is that American military dominance is not a sustainable means to ensure global prosperity.</p>
<p>You Dumbo _twisted Logic ??????? Ya Right !<br />
The end of a Gun saved this World twice and kept us  save with Russia and China ever sense WW2 .<br />
When an if the World is not policed by America it will be the wild west days of the 1800.s .<br />
Nato is a Joke as is the UN at defending anything unless you like rape and robbery like the UN BLUE HELMETS DID ALL OVER AFRICA RECENTLY .<br />
There are 157 Radical Moslem terrorist groups world wide &#8230;.. 27 Marxist groups like Shinning Path and of course Iran and N Korea stirring the pot the UN does jack over you fool .<br />
As for economics ? Are you a child &#8230;. When the Dollar is not the trade Currency that will hurt America badly &#8230;. Oh wait that is what you as a anti American radical socialist and Obama wants for America .<br />
Silly me .<br />
It is sad you hate America &#8230;.. Might I suggest Iran ,  Russia , China , Nam , Cuba , Venezuela  , Mexico , Africa and Pakistan </p>
<p>*****Are you on Drugs or just stupid or beyond Naive<br />
You must live in a Cave .</p>
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		<title>By: David S</title>
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		<dc:creator>David S</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;b&gt;@99. goy:&lt;/b&gt;

You really should get someone to read and explain my comment for you. Plenty of interesting phrases there for you and your fellow authoritarian, fake-patriot travelers and useful co-idiots to cherry-pick, cite out-of-context and lie about.

There, that wasn&#039;t so hard, was it?  Next time keep your head down, Dippy.

Peace

DS</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>@99. goy:</b></p>
<p>You really should get someone to read and explain my comment for you. Plenty of interesting phrases there for you and your fellow authoritarian, fake-patriot travelers and useful co-idiots to cherry-pick, cite out-of-context and lie about.</p>
<p>There, that wasn&#8217;t so hard, was it?  Next time keep your head down, Dippy.</p>
<p>Peace</p>
<p>DS</p>
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		<title>By: Now and Then</title>
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		<dc:creator>Now and Then</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>99 guy

&quot;On the other hand we have you, Zippy – a product of six wasted years of unsuccessful education who sits in his co-op apartment swilling beer and waiting for a ride to the bar for his next gig.&quot;

Ooops! Assumes facts not in evidence. Fail.

&quot;The standards of individual liberty and individual responsibility – the antithesis of socialism. Yes.&quot;

Now, goy, gay, guy . . . Let me help. When David S wrote,  &quot;We lost our role as the world’s moral leader by violating our own standards.&quot; I assumed he meant little things like &quot;America doesn&#039;t torture people.&quot; I&#039;m sure you thought the same, but knowing you could not defend or argue that point, you chose to dig down to the bottom of your bag of Hannity Inanity and pull out some random talking point. Nothing to do with anything. Well done! That&#039;s exactly the kind of logic that throws misanthropelosicus into a tight-fisted salute of moist conservative ecstasy.

You simply must pay more attention. This game is not for the faint of heart or the wobbly of intellect.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>99 guy</p>
<p>&#8220;On the other hand we have you, Zippy – a product of six wasted years of unsuccessful education who sits in his co-op apartment swilling beer and waiting for a ride to the bar for his next gig.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ooops! Assumes facts not in evidence. Fail.</p>
<p>&#8220;The standards of individual liberty and individual responsibility – the antithesis of socialism. Yes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now, goy, gay, guy . . . Let me help. When David S wrote,  &#8220;We lost our role as the world’s moral leader by violating our own standards.&#8221; I assumed he meant little things like &#8220;America doesn&#8217;t torture people.&#8221; I&#8217;m sure you thought the same, but knowing you could not defend or argue that point, you chose to dig down to the bottom of your bag of Hannity Inanity and pull out some random talking point. Nothing to do with anything. Well done! That&#8217;s exactly the kind of logic that throws misanthropelosicus into a tight-fisted salute of moist conservative ecstasy.</p>
<p>You simply must pay more attention. This game is not for the faint of heart or the wobbly of intellect.</p>
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		<title>By: goy</title>
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		<dc:creator>goy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmmm... looks like this in another PJM blog with problems posting PHP links...

&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;@96. David S:&lt;/b&gt; - Krauthammer’s self-contradictory attempt ...&lt;/i&gt;

Ooops! Assumes facts not in evidence. Fail.

&lt;i&gt;- ... justifying the notion that America owns the world ...&lt;/i&gt;

Ooops! Straw man fallacy. Can&#039;t seem to function without them, can you, Zippy. Fail. Again.

&lt;i&gt;- First he claims nothing is inevitable, ...&lt;/i&gt;

Oooops! Cherry-picked, as usual. Thanks for responding like one of Pavlov&#039;s dogs and doing &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; what I suggested, like the obedient little marxist useful idiot you are.

Nothing is inevitable &lt;i&gt;with respect to America&#039;s future&lt;/i&gt;. Read it again for comprehension, Zippy. Actually, don&#039;t bother, your infantile intellect is never going to comprehend that notion. Fail.

&lt;i&gt;- His twisted logic implies that morality can be imposed at the end of a gun, ...&lt;/i&gt;

Ooops!! That&#039;s YOUR blind assumption, Zippy. And your assumption is made doubly incoherent by the historically demonstrated fact that the imposition of collectivist &#039;morality&#039; &lt;i&gt;you&lt;/i&gt; blindly and consistently promote &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; requires the end of a gun. Fail. Again.

&lt;i&gt;- ... we lost our role as the world’s moral leader ...&lt;/i&gt; 

Nothing is lost. If we &lt;i&gt;choose&lt;/i&gt; to give up this role, the cause has already been identified: it&#039;s exactly the one you keep getting schooled with here over and over.

&lt;i&gt;- ... by violating our own standards ...&lt;/i&gt;

The standards of individual liberty and individual responsibility - the antithesis of socialism. Yes.

As the U.S.A. has become more socialist during the last 70+ years - beginning with FDR&#039;s so-called &quot;New Deal&quot;, followed by LBJ&#039;s so-called &quot;Great Society&quot; and his gift of the Vietnam War, the Bushes&#039; &quot;compassionate conservatism&quot; (a.k.a. socialism-lite), Clinton&#039;s hypertaxation and wag-the-dog foreign policy, and now BHO&#039;s narcissistic plan to seize control over our entire economy and turn America into a third-world, socialist wasteland - we&#039;ve gotten deeper in debt, less free, less respected and more hated abroad, less united and more conflicted within, less geopolitically secure, fatter, more apathetic, more corrupt and generally dumber. You&#039;re living proof.

&lt;i&gt;- ... the only way to rebuild American prestige ...&lt;/i&gt; 

You&#039;re worried about prestige? Well let&#039;s see...

On the one hand we have Dr. Charles Krauthammer, M.D.: world-renowned and acclaimed psychiatrist &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; Pulitzer-winning author. On the other hand we have you, Zippy - a product of six wasted years of unsuccessful education who sits in his co-op apartment swilling beer and waiting for a ride to the bar for his next gig.

Gee... it&#039;s a tough call, but I&#039;ll have to go with the Doc on this.

What does Dr. K. have to say about prestige in the article you only skimmed? Who seeks &quot;prestige&quot;? In this case, regimes like North Korea and Iran. No surprise that - by your own admission - this also includes pathetic, contemptible little frogwits like you, Zippy.

David S = Fail. Again.

.

&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;@97. Now and Then:&lt;/b&gt; - gay&lt;/i&gt;

So you&#039;re homophobic as well as sophomoric. Who could possibly have seen that coming.</description>
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<p><i><b>@96. David S:</b> &#8211; Krauthammer’s self-contradictory attempt &#8230;</i></p>
<p>Ooops! Assumes facts not in evidence. Fail.</p>
<p><i>- &#8230; justifying the notion that America owns the world &#8230;</i></p>
<p>Ooops! Straw man fallacy. Can&#8217;t seem to function without them, can you, Zippy. Fail. Again.</p>
<p><i>- First he claims nothing is inevitable, &#8230;</i></p>
<p>Oooops! Cherry-picked, as usual. Thanks for responding like one of Pavlov&#8217;s dogs and doing <i>exactly</i> what I suggested, like the obedient little marxist useful idiot you are.</p>
<p>Nothing is inevitable <i>with respect to America&#8217;s future</i>. Read it again for comprehension, Zippy. Actually, don&#8217;t bother, your infantile intellect is never going to comprehend that notion. Fail.</p>
<p><i>- His twisted logic implies that morality can be imposed at the end of a gun, &#8230;</i></p>
<p>Ooops!! That&#8217;s YOUR blind assumption, Zippy. And your assumption is made doubly incoherent by the historically demonstrated fact that the imposition of collectivist &#8216;morality&#8217; <i>you</i> blindly and consistently promote <i>always</i> requires the end of a gun. Fail. Again.</p>
<p><i>- &#8230; we lost our role as the world’s moral leader &#8230;</i> </p>
<p>Nothing is lost. If we <i>choose</i> to give up this role, the cause has already been identified: it&#8217;s exactly the one you keep getting schooled with here over and over.</p>
<p><i>- &#8230; by violating our own standards &#8230;</i></p>
<p>The standards of individual liberty and individual responsibility &#8211; the antithesis of socialism. Yes.</p>
<p>As the U.S.A. has become more socialist during the last 70+ years &#8211; beginning with FDR&#8217;s so-called &#8220;New Deal&#8221;, followed by LBJ&#8217;s so-called &#8220;Great Society&#8221; and his gift of the Vietnam War, the Bushes&#8217; &#8220;compassionate conservatism&#8221; (a.k.a. socialism-lite), Clinton&#8217;s hypertaxation and wag-the-dog foreign policy, and now BHO&#8217;s narcissistic plan to seize control over our entire economy and turn America into a third-world, socialist wasteland &#8211; we&#8217;ve gotten deeper in debt, less free, less respected and more hated abroad, less united and more conflicted within, less geopolitically secure, fatter, more apathetic, more corrupt and generally dumber. You&#8217;re living proof.</p>
<p><i>- &#8230; the only way to rebuild American prestige &#8230;</i> </p>
<p>You&#8217;re worried about prestige? Well let&#8217;s see&#8230;</p>
<p>On the one hand we have Dr. Charles Krauthammer, M.D.: world-renowned and acclaimed psychiatrist <i>and</i> Pulitzer-winning author. On the other hand we have you, Zippy &#8211; a product of six wasted years of unsuccessful education who sits in his co-op apartment swilling beer and waiting for a ride to the bar for his next gig.</p>
<p>Gee&#8230; it&#8217;s a tough call, but I&#8217;ll have to go with the Doc on this.</p>
<p>What does Dr. K. have to say about prestige in the article you only skimmed? Who seeks &#8220;prestige&#8221;? In this case, regimes like North Korea and Iran. No surprise that &#8211; by your own admission &#8211; this also includes pathetic, contemptible little frogwits like you, Zippy.</p>
<p>David S = Fail. Again.</p>
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<p><i><b>@97. Now and Then:</b> &#8211; gay</i></p>
<p>So you&#8217;re homophobic as well as sophomoric. Who could possibly have seen that coming.</p>
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