A Revolutionary Christmas Story (I apologize up front for posting this)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/21/opinion/21cheney.html?th

By LYNNE CHENEY

Published: December 21, 2004


Washington

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AS 1776 was drawing to a close, Elkanah Watson, a young man in Massachusetts, expressed what many Americans feared about their war for independence. "We looked upon the contest as near its close," he wrote, "and considered ourselves a vanquished people."

There was good reason for pessimism. The British had driven Gen. George Washington and his men out of New York and across New Jersey. In early December, with the British on their heels, the Americans had commandeered every boat they could find to escape across the Delaware River into Pennsylvania. They were starving, sick and cold. The artist Charles Willson Peale, watching the landing from the Pennsylvania shore, described a soldier dressed "in an old dirty blanket jacket, his beard long and his face so full of sores that he could not clean it." So disfigured was the man, Peale wrote, that at first he did not recognize him as his brother James

In these desperate circumstances, George Washington made a stunning decision: to go back across the Delaware and launch a surprise attack on the Hessian mercenaries occupying Trenton. On Christmas night, he led 2,400 men, many of them with their feet wrapped in rags because they had no shoes, to a crossing point nine miles upstream from Trenton. As freezing temperatures turned rain to sleet and snow, they began to cross the river.

-MORE (drivel from this pitiful whining idiot female freakshow-

[TaleWgnDg]

1. Well. You can apologize all you want . . .

Well. You can apologize all you want . . . but how about some excerpts from Lynne Cheney's "Sisters" novel from a few years back? heh.



http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4615911/

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/OopBooks/UsedBook.asp?userid=tUN32BAIUUcA&ean=2782540950011&author=Lynne+Cheney&WID=64317950&rFlag=Y

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[Sugarbleus]

2. Lynne Cheney is an "ankle"........n/t

[The Zanti Regent]

3. Where's the lesbian stuff?

Damn, it ain't there :-(

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4. It disgusts me to see Tyrants using the Founding Fathers as cover for

their evil unAmerican ways.

But that has ALWAYS been the pattern with Tyrants, and even the Brezhnev-era Soviets dared to call themselves free and "democratic".

As usual, the Busheviks align quite nicely in their use of lies and false images with the Bolsheviks and the Nazis.

5. Maybe the founding fathers were tyrants

Then again Jefferson may have been a benevolent slave master. After all he was kind enough to have children with Sally Hemming (I obviously am being sarcastic and can't stand Jefferson.)

On to Madison who openly discusses the necessity of controlling the unruly mob and creating a government for and by the elite while creating a myth of universal freedom. Check out the federalist papers. Oh yeah, I think Madison had slaves too.

And G. Washington, the richest man in America at the time. He owned a huge chunk of Virginia. He made his military reputation by slaughtering Native villages in the French and Indian wars.

It's funny when people were talking about Saddam the tyrant and how him getting 99% of the vote proved that democracy was a sham there. People forget or never cared to learn that Washington was elected twice with 100% of "the vote", of course the only people voting were the founding fathers.

Your heroes are tyrants.