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tekisui (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-18-09 04:26 PMOriginal message Irving Kristol, Godfather of Neoconservatism, is Dead Source: The Raw StoryIrving Kristol, the political writer and publisher called the "godfather" of neo-conservatism, has died. He was 89.Editors at The Weekly Standard said Kristol died Friday in Washington.He had been a radical in his youth but eventually rejected liberalism. He co-founded an important conservative journal, The Public Interest, and wrote several books, including "Neo-Conservatism: The Autobiography of An Idea."His son is the influential conservative William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard.http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/irving-krisol-godfathe...
anigbrowl (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-18-09 04:28 PMResponse to Original message 1. It's a sad thing when you depart leaving the world less well off than when you arrived.
Journeyman (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-18-09 04:28 PMResponse to Original message 2. My momma told me to say nothing but good about the dead. . . Irving Kristol is dead.Good.
naaman fletcher (325 posts) Fri Sep-18-09 04:30 PMResponse to Original message 3. I hate the neo-cons.. Although I disagree with them, I can respect the Goldwater libertarian types, and some are even my friends. But the war-mongering a-holes that run the GOP now can all rot where their founder Kristol hopefully is at this moment.
Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-18-09 04:30 PMResponse to Original message 4. Sad for his family, I guess.
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-18-09 04:30 PMResponse to Original message 5. RIP, we are better than that Oh and radical in his youth, he was a Trostkyte.
They just never can help themselves, can they? When Ted Kennedy died, I don't believe I posted a word.
