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Biden, McCain, and Thucydides
Yesterday, I posted with some fury about one of Joe Biden's lines. He said, "These times require more than a good soldier, they require a wise leader." I thought that was pretty disgusting. You could interpret Biden to mean, "McCain may be good enough to go off to Vietnam and get himself tortured. Good for him. But he just ain't smart enough to be president." Anyway, a reader wrote in with ...
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Corner lunacy. . .
Martini Revolution — Those little sods in the corner are en fuego with teh stoopid today. Many are concerned that the fact that William Ayers was a radical is as unknown as the fact that McCain was a POW. But teh stoopid cake today is taken by Jay Nordlinger with this putz-worthy effort: Yesterday, I posted with some fury about one of Joe Biden’s lines. He said, “These times require more than a good soldier, they require a wise leader.” I thought that was pretty disgusting. You could interpret Biden to mean, “McCain may be good enough to go off to ...

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