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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (21573)	8/8/2007 11:23:05 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 71588

noblesse oblige (noh-BLES oh-BLEEZH) The belief that the wealthy and privileged are obliged to help those less fortunate. From French, meaning “nobility obligates.” bartleby.com Notice this does not say anything about government relieving people of their obligations.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (21573)	8/8/2007 11:50:28 AM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

peter, your post is worthy spending some time responding and i dont have the time to do it now a couple of initial thoughts that will try to expand on later from the beginning of our history, political opponents have gone after each other in a bare-fisted manner that is pretty unique to our country, and that has never been as seen as unpatriotic -- i will try to track this down later, but if you look at some of the early fliers folks circulated about jefferson, washington, etc, they would make rove and carville blush interesingly, this concern on rw si sites about speaking reverentially about our president and doing nothing to undermine his stature on the world stage seems to have begun january 20, 2001. i dont recall any concern about being uncritical of clinton when he was in office. he was accused of murdering his friends, etc. if attacking our president gives aid and comfort to our enemies, the gop's ill-considered impeachment efforts must have had them on their feet cheering. and we wont even go into the savage attacks against carter when he was president as for the author, whose views are obviously very genuinely held, he is fortunate that carter was president when he applied for political assylum; it is unlikely that he would be granted that status these days have a good one