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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (19302)	1/30/2003 2:07:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 93284

Of course, it turned out that the Nazis and other fascists were anything but hobgoblins, and Mencken's influence as a pundit declined.......

To: Thomas M. who wrote (19302)	1/30/2003 3:03:28 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Mencken even today is still one of the most-quoted Americans, and rightfully so: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."