Reply #4: I love this post from First Draft

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Athenae: http://www.first-draft.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5092&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

First of all, I've been screaming about hitting them with the chair for so long, you don't need to read an open letter to Obama telling him to stop deploring the uncivil tone of politics and realize he is, in fact, a politician and should either do the job with all its indignities or, if he truly considers it beneath him, get the fuck out.

(And just between him and me, when you win the race he won in 2004, I can see where you think all it takes is statesmanship and decency to beat the GOP. What he doesn't seem to realize is that, in facing first Jack Ryan and then Alan Keyes, he wasn't running against the real GOP. He ran against the GOP's drunk uncle. He and Max Cleland should sit down and Max should explain to him what it's really like when they come after you. Maybe then he could lecture us about moral courage with some credibility. As it is, thank you for voting against cloture, Barack, and as for the rest of your career, try saying this shit behind the scenes and not to the pretty sparkly cameras, okay?)

And you don't need me to tell you that this speech by ol' Teddy was a thing of epic beauty and that watching him deliver it was one of the most moving experiences of my political life, and that I won't even quote it because you need to read it all in its thunder and glory...