WWW.samefacts.com - 2/25/2009
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When Wesley Clark was runnign for President, my colleague and sometime co-blogger Andy Sabl read his book and offered what I thought was the best bumper-sticker version of Clark's platform: "a liberalism of national greatness." This was of course a play on the "conservatism of national ...
WWW.samefacts.com - 2/25/2009
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WWW.samefacts.com —
I'm flattered that Mark cites me as the
coiner of "National Greatness Liberalism." But in fact, that...
slogan was his invention, not mine--and I'm actually troubled that Obama is trying on something very like it. My original post on Wesley Clark--alas ...
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National greatness liberalism? Not so fast.
tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 2/22/2009
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tigerhawk.blogspot.com —
In case it is not obvious, I'm something
of a "national greatness" conservative, a euphamism of sorts...
for "nationalist," which is a bit déclassé in today's interconnected world. (In other words, we use the word for pretty much the same reason that ...
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A shot in the arm for "national greatness" conservatives
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