To: John Carragher who wrote (73348 ) 9/26/2004 7:58:15 PM From: Sully- Respond to Josh Marshall's history PhD seems wastedliberal blogger Joshua Micah Marshall is capable of writing "like every other overeducated journalist," referring no doubt to his PhD in American history from Brown University. But as the Times also notes, as a blogger, Dr. Marshall "has become an irate spitter of well-crafted vitriol aimed at the president." A current example of how all of Dr. Marshall's learning and education is overwhelmed by his instinct for partisan snark:Don Rumsfeld said yesterday that elections in "three-quarters or four-fifths of" Iraq might be good enough. We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us. The strife of the election is but human-nature practically applied to the facts of the case. What has occurred in this case, must ever recur in similar cases. Human-nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; as bad and good. Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged. The speaker? Abraham Lincoln, on November 10, 1864 , after an historically pivotal election, conducted in the midst of a civil war, that determined the fate of a nation — ours. Lincoln won with 212 electoral votes, as against 21 for McClellan. But fully 80 electoral votes — just over one-third of the national total — were never cast because, of course, they represented votes from states then in rebellion against the Union. beldar.org
