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October 12, 2007

Blast From the Past

by AltHippo @ 11:49 am. Filed under Uncategorized

Joe Klein, 2005 (Time Magazine):

One can only imagine the Republican wrath and utter ridicule—the Rush Limbaugh fulminations—if, say, John Kerry had proposed a similar policy: Let’s pin our Middle East hopes on the statesmanship of Hizballah and Hamas. But that is where the democratic idealism of the Bush Doctrine has led us. If the President turns out to be right—and let’s hope he is—a century’s worth of woolly-headed liberal dreamers will be vindicated. And he will surely deserve that woolliest of all peace prizes, the Nobel.

Here’s to woolly-headed liberal dreamers, everywhere.

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