Thursday, June 23, 2005
Our Newest Op Ed
Durbin takes off the gloves - and mask
- By Michael M. Bates
Illinois' very own Senator Dick Durbin is a career politician who's been in Washington for more than 20 years. He's maintained a lower profile than Paris Hilton's bodice all this time. But he picked a surefire theme for his national coming out party: Comparing American soldiers to Nazis, Communists, and Cambodia's Pol Pot.
It may have seemed over the top, even by the current Democratic standards in which Howard Dean is viewed as the voice of moderation and restraint.
Adjusting the air conditioning and loudly playing hip-hop music doesn't seem equivalent to the torture, brutality, widespread starvation, firing squads, burying people alive, gas chambers and ovens and other techniques used by history's biggest murderer..................
Click HERE To Read On
- By Michael M. Bates
Illinois' very own Senator Dick Durbin is a career politician who's been in Washington for more than 20 years. He's maintained a lower profile than Paris Hilton's bodice all this time. But he picked a surefire theme for his national coming out party: Comparing American soldiers to Nazis, Communists, and Cambodia's Pol Pot.
It may have seemed over the top, even by the current Democratic standards in which Howard Dean is viewed as the voice of moderation and restraint.
Adjusting the air conditioning and loudly playing hip-hop music doesn't seem equivalent to the torture, brutality, widespread starvation, firing squads, burying people alive, gas chambers and ovens and other techniques used by history's biggest murderer..................
Click HERE To Read On
# posted by Publius @ 6/23/2005 02:00:00 PM 
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