SpeedRacer 1 #1 October 27, 2008 http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12470555 Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TheAnvil 0 #2 October 27, 2008 I read the Economist every week - and mostly ignore Lexington. Great magazine on the whole, however. And Vinny the dumbass forgot his issue at home. Should have snagged one at the airport. Dammit. Borders, here I come! Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,230 #3 October 27, 2008 So conservative intellectuals are shifting to Obama. Doesn't look like he's getting the neo-Nazi skinhead assassin-wannabe vote, though.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #4 October 28, 2008 QuoteSo conservative intellectuals are shifting to Obama. Doesn't look like he's getting the neo-Nazi skinhead assassin-wannabe vote, though. Have you data to support that? And there are some posters here who believe all Republicans are racist neonazi neanderthals. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnDeere 0 #5 October 28, 2008 Quote Quote So conservative intellectuals are shifting to Obama. Doesn't look like he's getting the neo-Nazi skinhead assassin-wannabe vote, though. Have you data to support that? And there are some posters here who believe all Republicans are racist neonazi neanderthals. Including the one that you were replying to!Nothing opens like a Deere! You ignorant fool! Checks are for workers! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lawrocket 3 #6 October 28, 2008 Actually, Kallend is one of them that I do not believe thinks that. My wife is hotter than your wife. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gawain 0 #7 October 28, 2008 I'm a subscriber to the Economist, and while I like it as a whole, it is an elite-minded, left leaning publication. I recall reading a column in there about a week before Russia invaded Georgia, they were remarking some polite idea that Russia was positioning to pressure Georgia to join some UN placed panel about the enclaves in dispute. A week following the Russian invasion, they had no way to position their coverage, it was a "shocked" perspective. Lexington has its own agenda altogether....whatever lens he uses to view things is in need of cleaning...to buttress his claims he cites Powell, Sen. Hagel, and Buckley? My point being, if you read the Economist regularly, anyone will be able to see very strange perspective they have of us, and thus, one can assume, the world. It's certainly insightful sometimes, but it's also a completely different brand of tea. So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright 'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life Make light! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nerdgirl 0 #8 October 28, 2008 QuoteI'm a subscriber to the Economist, and while I like it as a whole, it is an elite-minded, left leaning publication. On what do you base that? Unless one redefines "left" (not 'liberal') to mean free-market capitalist ideal? This may be an illustrative example of the need to recognize the difference between political affiliation/leaning and social values versus economics. They are not the same. VR/Marg Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters. Tibetan Buddhist saying Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kallend 2,230 #9 October 28, 2008 QuoteQuoteSo conservative intellectuals are shifting to Obama. Doesn't look like he's getting the neo-Nazi skinhead assassin-wannabe vote, though. Have you data to support that? . No poll data, but a lot of evidence.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #10 October 28, 2008 If you think the Economist is a left leaning publication I think that says a lot about where you sit and how it affects your perception of the centre. Basically you can't see it from your seat.Best line of the article was the last one. Quote If the Republican Party continues to think that the problem lies with the rats, rather than the seaworthiness of the ship, then the Obamacons are here to stay. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpeedRacer 1 #11 October 28, 2008 My feeling is that there are several very different elements within the Republican Party, some I agree with, some I don't. The particular NeoConservative brand that is running things now has not proven to be in the best interests of the Republican Party. Speed Racer -------------------------------------------------- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
