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Someone whom I exchange emails with had the following comment about George W. Bush giving the Medal of Freedom to Muhammad Ali:
"And he doesn't learn. The poetic justice of his giving the Medal of Freedom to an anti-American like Muhammad Ali, and then having Ali diss him! Did he learn from that? Never? Is there any sign he learned from befriending Kennedy, then having Kennedy treat him like garbage? Same with the Clintons.
"It's the Republican syndrome. They are the imperfect, second-order citizens of the liberal order, feeling that they deserve to be treated like s**t by the liberals. They voluntarily adopt the role of the discriminatory, greedy, uncool, sexually repressed, backward remnant of the old order whose continual chastisement by the liberals is one of the pillars of the liberal order.This is the way they express their allegiance to the liberal order, by allowing themselves to be treated like garbage."
During the presentation, Bush playfully put up his hands. Ali respnded by pointing his finger at his his own head and twirling it, making a sign that Ali thought Bush was crazy.
"And he doesn't learn. The poetic justice of his giving the Medal of Freedom to an anti-American like Muhammad Ali, and then having Ali diss him! Did he learn from that? Never? Is there any sign he learned from befriending Kennedy, then having Kennedy treat him like garbage? Same with the Clintons.
"It's the Republican syndrome. They are the imperfect, second-order citizens of the liberal order, feeling that they deserve to be treated like s**t by the liberals. They voluntarily adopt the role of the discriminatory, greedy, uncool, sexually repressed, backward remnant of the old order whose continual chastisement by the liberals is one of the pillars of the liberal order.This is the way they express their allegiance to the liberal order, by allowing themselves to be treated like garbage."
During the presentation, Bush playfully put up his hands. Ali respnded by pointing his finger at his his own head and twirling it, making a sign that Ali thought Bush was crazy.