Daily Archives: Aug. 25, 2007

Open thread 8/25

Aug. 25, 20071:04 a.m.

By Phillip Brownlee | Filed under Open thread | Comments (54)

Aug. 25, 20071:01 a.m.

A depressing Associated Press-Ipsos poll that found fewer adults are reading books also found that liberals read more books than conservatives. The explanation offered by former Colorado Democratic Rep. Pat Schroeder (in photo), now president of the American Association of Publishers, ought to rile people up: “The Karl Roves of the world have built a generation that just wants a couple slogans: ‘No, don’t raise my taxes, no new taxes.’ It’s pretty hard to write a book saying, ‘No new taxes, no new taxes, no new taxes’ on every page.”
By contrast, she said, liberals “can’t say anything in less than paragraphs. We really want the whole picture, want to peel the onion.”
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By Phillip Brownlee | Filed under American life | Comments (327)

Bush not first to use Vietnam analogy

Aug. 25, 20071:00 a.m.

President Bush created a stir by linking the Iraq conflict to the Vietnam War, but at least two GOP presidential candidates have made the same comparison, the Washington Post reported. John McCain has warned against an Iraq withdrawal by arguing that withdrawing from Vietnam led to suffering and genocide in Vietnam and Cambodia. Rudy Giuliani also recently claimed that the United States was winning in Vietnam before it pulled out, and that the withdrawal had dire consequences.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

By Phillip Brownlee | Filed under Iraq | Comments (112)