Comments on: Know what you’re quoting http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 28 Nov 2009 08:16:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1665562 cinnamonape Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:30:14 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1665562 <p>I also like the fact that Sarah, once a Catholic, didn’t seem to even know that Reagan cribbed the line “Shining City on a Hill” from St. Augustine via the “creditted” Pilgrim, John Winthrop. So she not only borrowed but then plagiarised from a a tertiary source that she should have known. Perhaps she did it might have been a stealthy shout out to the religious right, as Winthrop was a sort of a “born again”, and so, in a manner of speaking, was also (naughty Zoroastrian -Iranian- sympathizer who saw God later in life).</p> <p>But St. Augustine is generally thought to be referring to a communitarian vision of what religious responsibilities were to be. It wasn’t the free-market independence that Palin espoused in the debate…rather it is more like the Norwegian-style socialism that Alaska actually has.</p> I also like the fact that Sarah, once a Catholic, didn’t seem to even know that Reagan cribbed the line “Shining City on a Hill” from St. Augustine via the “creditted” Pilgrim, John Winthrop. So she not only borrowed but then plagiarised from a a tertiary source that she should have known. Perhaps she did it might have been a stealthy shout out to the religious right, as Winthrop was a sort of a “born again”, and so, in a manner of speaking, was also (naughty Zoroastrian -Iranian- sympathizer who saw God later in life).

But St. Augustine is generally thought to be referring to a communitarian vision of what religious responsibilities were to be. It wasn’t the free-market independence that Palin espoused in the debate…rather it is more like the Norwegian-style socialism that Alaska actually has.

]]> By: sbgypsy99 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663988 sbgypsy99 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:08:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663988 <p>When I heard the Regan quote, I didn’t know it was about medicare, I just started thinking about all the freedoms that Bushco and “Fatherland security” took from us, and said - “what a stupid quote to have left us with!”</p> When I heard the Regan quote, I didn’t know it was about medicare, I just started thinking about all the freedoms that Bushco and “Fatherland security” took from us, and said – “what a stupid quote to have left us with!”

]]> By: klynn http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663903 klynn Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:49:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663903 <p>Well, this is what happens when boneheads prep you and all they do is google “Reagan quotes” and do not check the context of any of the quotes and you, as the candidate, do not have the brains to question the quote’s context on your own.</p> Well, this is what happens when boneheads prep you and all they do is google “Reagan quotes” and do not check the context of any of the quotes and you, as the candidate, do not have the brains to question the quote’s context on your own.

]]> By: KayInMaine http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663870 KayInMaine Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:15:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663870 <p>LOL</p> LOL

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663861 Beerfart Liberal Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:04:18 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663861 <p>Yeah. I re-read it and should have known that. My bad. I’m still in the early morning shit-for-brains mode.</p> Yeah. I re-read it and should have known that. My bad. I’m still in the early morning shit-for-brains mode.

]]> By: Raven http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663859 Raven Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:02:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663859 <p>It is the Palin quote from last night where she mentioned Talibani not the Taliban.</p> It is the Palin quote from last night where she mentioned Talibani not the Taliban.

]]> By: twolf1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663858 twolf1 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:02:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663858 <p><a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/infograph/rules_of_the_vice" rel="nofollow">Rules Of The Vice Presidential Debate</a></p> Rules Of The Vice Presidential Debate

]]> By: foothillsmike http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663857 foothillsmike Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:01:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663857 <p>How about a six pack and mooseburgers</p> How about a six pack and mooseburgers

]]> By: Bluetoe2 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663856 Bluetoe2 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:00:43 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663856 <p>Not a rule just an observation.</p> Not a rule just an observation.

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663854 Beerfart Liberal Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:59:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/03/know-what-youre-quoting/#comment-1663854 <p>Imn my view, we’re finished in Iraq when the Iraqis say get the hell out of our country and they already are.</p> Imn my view, we’re finished in Iraq when the Iraqis say get the hell out of our country and they already are.

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