Comments on: Something Norm Geras and I Agree On https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/09/20/something-norm-geras-and-i-agree-on/ Culture, Politics, Academia and Other Shiny Objects Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:53:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.15 By: Bristlecone https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/09/20/something-norm-geras-and-i-agree-on/comment-page-1/#comment-2114 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 21:53:36 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=280#comment-2114 t help but thinking of the USofA when I read that. While USA2000 is a very different starting point from Zimbabwe1988 it seems to me that Bush-Cheney is on a rampage of comparable relative magnitude. And think of what their Iraq adventuring has done for the Middle East. " Are you joking? The USA is richer now than it was when Bush entered office...just as it was richer when Clinton entered office than when he left...and so for every President since Hoover. If you really think that (rather than your comment was intended as a troll) then you've just demonstrated what's the matter with Kansas...the alternative to the GOP is a set of hysterical, overwrought comparisons which does not resemble reality.]]> “Can’t help but thinking of the USofA when I read that. While USA2000 is a very different starting point from Zimbabwe1988 it seems to me that Bush-Cheney is on a rampage of comparable relative magnitude. And think of what their Iraq adventuring has done for the Middle East. ”

Are you joking? The USA is richer now than it was when Bush entered office…just as it was richer when Clinton entered office than when he left…and so for every President since Hoover.

If you really think that (rather than your comment was intended as a troll) then you’ve just demonstrated what’s the matter with Kansas…the alternative to the GOP is a set of hysterical, overwrought comparisons which does not resemble reality.

]]> By: bbenzon https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2006/09/20/something-norm-geras-and-i-agree-on/comment-page-1/#comment-2025 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:41:07 +0000 http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=280#comment-2025 s labor." Can't help but thinking of the USofA when I read that. While USA2000 is a very different starting point from Zimbabwe1988 it seems to me that Bush-Cheney is on a rampage of comparable relative magnitude. And think of what their Iraq adventuring has done for the Middle East. ]]> “Too much has already been ruined that either cannot be fixed, or can only be repaired through a generation’s labor.”

Can’t help but thinking of the USofA when I read that. While USA2000 is a very different starting point from Zimbabwe1988 it seems to me that Bush-Cheney is on a rampage of comparable relative magnitude. And think of what their Iraq adventuring has done for the Middle East.

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