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To: Alighieri who wrote (579240)	8/3/2010 12:00:13 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572460

10. The substitution of mouth-foaming, spittle-blasting, rabble-rousing talk radio for reasoned debate. Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Hugh Hewitt, and even Rush Limbaugh are not exactly putting on Firing Line. Whatever happened to smart, well-read, articulate leaders like Buckley, Neuhaus, Kirk, Jack Kent, Goldwater, and, yes, even Ronald Reagan? 11. A complete absence of ideas... You and Obama think alike. This is what he said in Atlanta yesterday: "Now, understand, it'd be one thing if the Republicans had seen the error of their ways. (Laughter.) Right? I mean, if after the rejections of 2006 and 2008, realizing, gosh, look at this big disaster that we caused and taking record surpluses into record deficits and causing all this hardship -- we're going to rethink our approach and go out in the wilderness for a while, come back with some new ideas. (Laughter.) "But that's not what happened. It's not like they've engaged in some heavy reflection. They have not come up with a single, solitary, new idea to address the challenges of the American people. They don't have a single idea that's different from George Bush's ideas -- not one. (Applause.) "Instead, they're betting on amnesia. (Laughter.) That's what they're counting on. They're counting on that you all forgot. They think that they can run the okey-doke on you. (Laughter.) Bamboozle you." (Laughter.)