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To: i-node who wrote (395370)	7/1/2008 4:20:07 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574059

"hangs out with ayres" ??? links please.

To: i-node who wrote (395370)	7/1/2008 4:20:34 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1574059

Anyone who hangs out with Ayres is clearly not "moderate". Rich Daly?

To: i-node who wrote (395370)	7/1/2008 6:03:09 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574059

Tue Jul 1, 8:03 AM Pacific Jonah Goldberg Smears Ronald Reagan's Patriotism? Normally, I put sleazeballs idiots like Jonah Goldberg on the ignore list, but his most recent USA Today column is just too juicy to ignore. In his trademarked pseudo-intellectual style, Jonah launches a full-on smear against Barack Obama, claiming that Barack has a "patriotism problem." To make his case, Jonah digs up a quote of Barack saying "I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great and, hopefully, that will be a testimony to my patriotism." I'll let Jonah take over for a moment: Read that line again: "What I believe will make this country great." Not to sound too much like a Jewish mother, but some might respond, "What? It's not great now?" This sense that America is in need of fixing in order to be a great country points to Obama's real patriotism problem. So Barack Obama has a patriotism problem because...he wants to to make the country great. Obviously, it's a stupid argument -- only someone who hates America would not want to make it great, and only the world's biggest idiot (which Jonah may well be) would suggest that America is right now as great as it has been in the past. But the funny thing is that it's not just a stupid argument -- it's one that also ensnares Ronald Reagan in Jonah Goldberg's patriotism trap. You see, it turns out that in his 1980 nomination acceptance speech, Ronald Reagan said the exact same thing as Barack Obama (text \| video): For those who have abandoned hope, we'll restore hope and we'll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again! "Make America great again?" Boy, Jonah must be horrified! The Gipper must be an unpatriotic jackass, right? Call the Patriotism Police! Mostly, I'm amused by the whole thing -- whenever a fool like Jonah Goldberg publicly humiliates himself, it's good times all around. But there is a serious point that I'd like to make: Ronald Reagan's quote reveals the thorough intellectual dishonesty of Jonah Goldberg's nasty, brutish attack on Barack Obama, because Goldberg never would have attacked Reagan, even though Reagan said the same thing. I'm sure that Jonah Goldberg loves what he thinks America is, and in that sense, he's patriotic, but when you read his words, you realize the contempt and hatred that he holds for a certain class of Americans. He should overcome that hatred -- it's ugly, and it's bad for our nation. jedreport.com