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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums". . . probably sounded better in the original German." -- Molly Ivin's quip re: 1992 GOP Convention
when Pat Buchanan spoke one night during the Convention. I remember that quote so well and now think of it at EVERY Republican Convention since.
More context from Wikipedia:
On the subject of Pat Buchanan's famously combative Culture War Speech at the 1992 Republican Convention, which attracted controversy over Buchanan's aggressive rhetoric against Bill Clinton, liberals, supporters of reproductive and gay rights, and for his comparison of American politics to religious warfare, Ivins famously quipped that the speech had "probably sounded better in the original German," noting the similarity between the concept of "culture war" and the Kulturkampf of Otto von Bismarck's Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Ivins
I miss her!
I miss her too!
Skittles
(157,695 posts)eissa
(4,238 posts)of Molly's many wonderful quotes, particularly this one. How I wish she could have witnessed the Obama presidency.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)various groups for the issues we face as a nation, in an attempt to create a nationalistic group of "patriots" who must destroy the "scary others".
cojoel
(996 posts)Bismarck's goals of the Kulturkampf was to eliminate church (specifically Vatican) influence in German political affaris, but better unify the German states into a nation. Buchanan's (and much of the Right-wing GOP it would seem) wants to have greater church (not necessarily limited to or in the view of some even including Vatican) influence in American political affairs.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)when she wrote it. I literally