Comments on: The anti-mensch http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/06/30/the-anti-mensch/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wesley Clark – Useful Idiot | Somewhere On AlA… http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/06/30/the-anti-mensch/comment-page-1/#comment-117338 Wesley Clark – Useful Idiot | Somewhere On AlA… Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:10:21 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=3184#comment-117338 [...] who incessantly calls himself a Capital ‘G’ Gentleman… like a man who refers to himself as a mensch… or a man who tells everyone within earshot about his latest Mensa group get-together. Since we [...] [...] who incessantly calls himself a Capital ‘G’ Gentleman… like a man who refers to himself as a mensch… or a man who tells everyone within earshot about his latest Mensa group get-together. Since we [...]

]]> By: Al http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/06/30/the-anti-mensch/comment-page-1/#comment-25613 Al Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:03:05 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=3184#comment-25613 Throughout my early WASP upbringing, I understood that "mensch" identified a man of integrity and strength. And the word was always uttered with a slight emphasis to give additional indication of approval to the person discussed. After reading more and more of both McCain and Obama, McCain is the mensch, and Obama is the anti-mensch. Al Throughout my early WASP upbringing, I understood that “mensch” identified a man of integrity and strength. And the word was always uttered with a slight emphasis to give additional indication of approval to the person discussed.
After reading more and more of both McCain and Obama, McCain is the mensch, and Obama is the anti-mensch.
Al

]]> By: Bookworm http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/06/30/the-anti-mensch/comment-page-1/#comment-25610 Bookworm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:48:38 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=3184#comment-25610 Stark is the perfect word, Earl. McCain is no prince, but mainstream Republicans (unlike the purists among us in the blogosphere) seem to feel that he was the most tolerable. Obama is simply scary. I fear the long-term damage he can do more than I fear that long-term damage McCain can do. On the problem scale, McCain is a molehill; Obama a mountain. Stark is the perfect word, Earl. McCain is no prince, but mainstream Republicans (unlike the purists among us in the blogosphere) seem to feel that he was the most tolerable. Obama is simply scary. I fear the long-term damage he can do more than I fear that long-term damage McCain can do. On the problem scale, McCain is a molehill; Obama a mountain.

]]> By: Earl http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/06/30/the-anti-mensch/comment-page-1/#comment-25609 Earl Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:45:23 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=3184#comment-25609 Inspiring essay.....and apparently only the first of five. I'm not a big McCain fan, but the choices are pretty stark this year, aren't they? Inspiring essay…..and apparently only the first of five.

I’m not a big McCain fan, but the choices are pretty stark this year, aren’t they?

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