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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: 5412 on January 29, 2011, 03:55:41 PM

Title: Sad but true
Post by: 5412 on January 29, 2011, 03:55:41 PM

It is sobering to reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - Charles A. Beard

 
regards,
5412

Title: Re: Sad but true
Post by: ExGeeEye on January 29, 2011, 04:38:05 PM

Yep.  A couple of my wimmin relatives asked me if I was quoting Beck, Limbaugh, or Palin last time I quoted Paine and Jefferson in their hearing.

Title: Re: Sad but true
Post by: NHSparky on January 29, 2011, 04:56:10 PM

Made all the more stunning by the fact that Beard was a dyed-in-the-wool liberal.