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Date: 7-9-08 04:59
From: 2761377

Subject: the mainstream media and hubris

standing in line at the market yesterday, i picked up a newsweek magazine to kill time. haven't looked at a news magazine in a long time.

flip open the mag to a page with a globalist-type quiz. the question i read is(paraphrased, correct me if i'm wrong)- which u.s. presidents were also generals?

quick mental total gave me 7, which was one of the choices. nailed it, i thought.

turned mag upside down, and they say 3! washington, grant and eisenhower.

now i wonder, how did that happen? did some under-educated editor think he had the right answer? and ignore the answers supplied by the researcher? or did he think, these morons will never know the difference, and (in support of obama) deliberately obfuscate the value of military leadership?

three of the four presidents neglected actually led troops in combat, and a large part of their political capital was derived from the succes and/or heroism shown.

WTF, newsweek?

Date: 7-9-08 08:24 From: Armond in Marin County Subject: Re: the mainstream media and hubris
what hubris is right. _________________ 73 Tii. My Daily driver Volvo V70 Turbo,Wagon Ad Deum Per Fidem Mores Culturam

Date: 7-9-08 08:50
From: inkatouring in San Francisco, California

Subject: Re: the mainstream media and hubris

Actually, you're both wrong. It is 12.

From http://www.american-presidents.org/2008/07/which-presidents-were-also-generals.html

1. George Washington, Revolutionary War
2. Andrew Jackson, War of 1812
3. William Henry Harrison, War of 1812
4. Zachary Taylor, Mexican War
5. Franklin Pierce, Mexican War
6. Andrew Johnson, Civil War
7. Ulysses Simpson Grant, Civil War
8. Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Civil War
9. James Abram Garfield, Civil War
10. Chester Allan Arthur, Civil War
11. Benjamin Harrison, Civil War
12. Dwight David Eisenhower, World War II

But, nonetheless, I like your paranoid reasoning of why they made the mistake.
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Date: 7-9-08 09:33 From: Armond in Marin County Subject: Re: the mainstream media and hubris
Dont correct us. File a complaint with newsweek. Paranoid? Dont look here. _________________ 73 Tii. My Daily driver Volvo V70 Turbo,Wagon Ad Deum Per Fidem Mores Culturam

Date: 7-9-08 10:06
From: inkatouring in San Francisco, California

Subject: Re: the mainstream media and hubris

Armond wrote:

Dont correct us. File a complaint with newsweek. Paranoid? Dont look here.

Calm down, Armond, I wasn't talking to you.
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Date: 7-9-08 11:35 From: Armond in Marin County Subject: Re: the mainstream media and hubris
I am calm. Are you? _________________ 73 Tii. My Daily driver Volvo V70 Turbo,Wagon Ad Deum Per Fidem Mores Culturam

Date: 7-10-08 01:26 From: 2761377 Subject: Re: the mainstream media and hubris
paranoid- classic, probably best ever label to divert attention.

Date: 7-10-08 01:56 From: Richard Subject: Chester Allan Arthur was the....
Quatermaster General of New York.....Youknow the guy in charge of supplies....Most of the others mentioned had General status thru their state militias. Some were even honorary titles..... Does anybody check facts anymore????Kinda like an honorary PHD

Date: 7-10-08 02:43
From: Delia in "Don't call it 'Frisco'"

Subject: Re: the mainstream media and hubris

Armond wrote:

what hubris is right.

I'm not sure.

Gotta be either Hubris Hoover or Hubris Humphrey.

Delia
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Date: 7-10-08 06:15
From: gwb72tii in the great PNW

Subject: Re: the mainstream media and hubris

Delia wrote:

Armond wrote:

what hubris is right.

I'm not sure.

Gotta be either Hubris Hoover or Hubris Humphrey.

Delia

George Hubris Walker Bush?
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Date: 7-10-08 07:43
From: inkatouring in San Francisco, California

Subject: Re: the mainstream media and hubris

2761377 wrote:

paranoid-

classic, probably best ever label to divert attention.

Sometimes (every once in a while) a cigar is .... a cigar.

gwb72tii wrote:

George Hubris Walker Bush?

Dude!
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Date: 7-10-08 08:54
From: gwb72tii in the great PNW

Subject: Re: the mainstream media and hubris

inkatouring wrote:

2761377 wrote:

paranoid-

classic, probably best ever label to divert attention.

Sometimes (every once in a while) a cigar is .... a ciagr.

gwb72tii wrote:

George Hubris Walker Bush?

Dude!

little did u know us conservatives actually have a keen sense of humor.

lol
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