Archive for the Tag 'debates'

Lincoln, Douglas, the typographic mind, and us

An essay


Good Wednesday morning Fellow Seekers of Wisdom and Truth,
On an August day 149 years ago (the actual anniversary, Aug. 21, slipped by last week while I was away), Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held the first of their famous  series of seven debates.  Although they would both run for president in 1860, it is sometimes forgotten […]

Obama is pilloried and Hillaried for what he said about bombing bin Laden, but no one has disagreed with him yet

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In the last two televised debates – one by the Repub. presidential field on Sunday morning and one by the Dems. on Tuesday evening – Sen. Barack Obama has been accused of cluelessness and recklessness for saying that he would try to capture or kill Osama bin Laden if he knew where the Al Qaida leader was hiding in […]