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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: FaultLine who started this subject4/22/2002 2:23:44 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
A post from another universe.

We get so much posting from the American right on this thread, I thought it might prove interesting to get a little taste from the American left. A friend sent me this link to this essay by David Corn who is the Washington editor of The Nation. It's about some surprising comments of James Inhofe, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma. Here's Corn's summary (the comparison is to Cynthia McKinney's comments):

But when a senator took to the Senate floor and said the September 11 attacks were retribution from God in response to U.S. policy toward Israel, a similar firestorm did not ensue.

Corn then proceeds to put it all in the context of other such comments. My favorites are from Tom DeLay who wishes to discourage anyone from sending their children to Texas A&M or Baylor University in Texas. They should send them to "Christian schools," he is quoted as saying. If you know even a little about higher education in Texas, you know you don't get much more explicitly religious than Baylor.

So what bothers Tom? Well, David Corn has a little fun with him. Corn says:

(Could that be because DeLay was booted out of Baylor in 1967 for what his spokesman says was "too vigorous a social life"?)

Now that's a line worth preserving for eternity: too vigorous a social life.

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