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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (3959)	2/2/2001 9:25:04 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Turns out when Gore said in his concession speech, "Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out", he was lying again. He said his father had said that. Wrong, it was a left wing poet named Edwin Markham, whose most famous work was The Man With a Hoe, which portrays the laboring class as brutally oppressed and degraded by an economic system run by "lords and masters." Or maybe Al Senior plagiarized it and Al Junior didn't know. That is more likely, considering the Dems' penchant for plagiarism. Joe Biden plagiarized a speech from Neil Kinnock when he ran for president in 88. Much of the I Have a Dream Speech was plagiarized by MLK from a sermon delivered by a black preacher at the 1952 Republican convention. That sermon is worth digging up. I wonder if it's contained in some archive somewhere.

To: Neocon who wrote (3959)	2/2/2001 10:37:27 AM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

You raise several good points, but I will continue to maintain there are valid comparisons between the Maginot Line and a Star Wars national missile defense system. What's important about the Maginot Line is that after the French built it, they then were smug in their confidence of its success. We must guard against similar thinking in assembling a national missile defense system. The United States must be vigilant, not smug, in protecting our borders, and we ought to study the hell out of the likelihood of a national missile defense system actually working before we spend a dollar on developing such a system.

To: Neocon who wrote (3959)	2/2/2001 11:49:34 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

One of the things that always amazes me when I visit exhibits about technology from the 1940's through 1960's is how primitive it seems for something that had such a sophisticated result - e.g., exhibits at the Air and Space Museum about the Enola Gay, the V2 rockets, the U2 spy planes, the Sputnik, and early US reconnaissance satellites. Prototypes are usually clunky. There are a lot of failures along the way. So what? American engineers are famous for developing something new and making it work Like the commercial says, "Every time They tell you it can't be done, just remember all the times They were wrong."