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2004-09-24 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by growler 2004-09-24 12:44:28 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

As someone who will vote for John Kerry even though I voted against him in my class

Uh, Stanley, what happened to "if the words you use fall apart, ring hollow, trail off and sound as if they came from nowhere or anywhere..., the suspicion will grow that what they lack is what you lack, and no one will follow you"?

What does it say about you that you conclude this, and write this, but are still going to vote for Kerry?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-24 1:11:58 PM|| 2004-09-24 1:11:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Or in the immortal words of the Bard:

Et tu, Brute?, then die Caeser...

Posted by BigEd 2004-09-24 1:16:17 PM|| 2004-09-24 1:16:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Devastating. When an old deconstructionist starts to speak some common sense, there's hope after all that literary studies are becoming less of a joke.

Posted by lex 2004-09-24 1:34:58 PM|| 2004-09-24 1:34:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Words are not just the cosmetic clothing of some underlying integrity; they are the operational vehicles of that integrity, the visible manifestation of the character to which others respond.

Well, there goes forty years of doctoral theses.

Posted by BH 2004-09-24 1:44:41 PM|| 2004-09-24 1:44:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 pshwaw! This old coot is in as much denial as Dan Rather if he thinks this "substance over style" bullshit will adequately justify voting for Kerry. It's barely different than Dan Rathers, "accurate if not authentic" meme.

His problem is that he's got all these young, bright kids in his class and in the past they've always looked up to him as a hip, cool, knowing teacher. Now, if he shills for Kerry, they just seem him as another daffy 60's guy - stuck in the summer of love and unable to bring himself into the realities of the 21st century with it's Islamist threats.

It makes him feel old and foolish, so he's found a way to straddle both sides of the divide. Thumbs up to him for at least attempting to find a loop-hole to connect with these kids. To bad, like Dan Rather, he doesn't have the guts to admit that the "enlightened" 60's with it's Clintons and Kerrys were a fraud.

Go Bush.

Posted by 2B 2004-09-24 4:46:26 PM|| 2004-09-24 4:46:26 PM|| Front Page Top

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