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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (165779)	7/29/2001 9:45:20 PM
From: Don Hurst	Respond to of 769669

Yeah, too bad Arnold was born in Austria. What about Heston? Naah...too senile... Wait a minute...he is probably ready for prime time based on the performance of the current Resident Select.

To: Ish who wrote (165779)	7/29/2001 10:10:51 PM
From: ColtonGang	Respond to of 769669

Try this on for size....... "McCarthyism" was coined by Herbert Block, the cartoonist who signs himself "Herblock" in the Washington Post. The word was an oath at first--a synonym for the hatefulness of baseless defamation, or mudslinging. Later it became, for some, an affirmation. The term survives both as oath and as affirmationnot very usefully as either, one is bound to sayand has far broader applications than at first. Now it is evocative of an almost undifferetiated evil to a large number of Americans and of a positive good to a somewhat smaller number. To the one, whatever is illiberal, repressive, reactionary, obscurantist, anti-intellectual, totalitarian, or merely swinish will for some time to come be McCarthyism, while to the other it means nothing more or less than a militant patriotism.