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2006-11-02 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mike 2006-11-02 06:04|| || Front Page|| [11126 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Worth the trip. I'll be e-mailing the link, with some encouragements, to all my non-Rantburg converts at lunchtime.

Posted by J. Edgar Hoover 2006-11-02 09:07|| 2006-11-02 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Oops. My secret identity has been revealed!

Posted by Bobby 2006-11-02 09:08|| 2006-11-02 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 For all the marbles...

Posted by .com 2006-11-02 10:21|| 2006-11-02 10:21|| Front Page Top

#4 A long, but quite insightful, lesson into the global war we're in the middle of. Written by a moderate Democrat, who has no love for the far right, but explains why Bush is the right man, in the right place, at the right time, with respect to the only issue that matters in this election.

He explains all the many competing forces that comprise our enemy - Iranian Shi'ite despots and Iraqi Shi'ite power grabbers, Sunni radicals and Syrian tyrants ... Why Iran is about to fall, but China isn't, and how the US could speed up the Iranian fall, but not with an invasion (I happen to disagee with him on that issue; I don't want an invasion, either.) He also explains why the survival of the US depends on not withdrawing from the middle east until all the competing voices of tyranny are quieted - they don't all have to be defeated, but they have to be shown we will not run away.

His conclusion, if you can't manage to get all the way through the logic -

For the sake of our children's future -- and for the sake of all good people in the world who don't get to vote in the only election that matters to their future, too -- vote for no Congressional candidate who even hints at withdrawing from Iraq or opposing Bush's leadership in the war. And vote for no candidate who will hand control of the House of Representatives to those who are sworn to undo Bush's restrained but steadfast foreign policy in this time of war.

Posted by Bobby 2006-11-02 14:07|| 2006-11-02 14:07|| Front Page Top

#5 After reading this, I'd like to give Mr. Card a standing ovation!

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Posted by eltoroverde 2006-11-02 14:28|| 2006-11-02 14:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Yet another proof, along with an interesting list of Rantburger nyms, that being a registered Democrat is not proof of the inability to think logically based on reality. Orson Scott Card is one of my favourite science fiction writers -- trailing daughter #1 was so devastated to learn that he'd given up teaching creative writing at one of the universities in South Carolina that she is currently thinking of majoring in linguistics instead. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-02 15:04|| 2006-11-02 15:04|| Front Page Top

#7 Good God don't let her! Languages yes, but not linguistics. It's so damn boring.

Posted by Noam 2006-11-02 20:31|| 2006-11-02 20:31|| Front Page Top

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