Republicus
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door." The Statue of Liberty (P.S. Please be so kind as to enter through the proper channels and in an orderly fashion)
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I like ya, kid. Ya got spunk. ;)
"You call him a Bush hater?
Perhaps he is."
"Perhaps?" Who does this sound like to you:
"The Bush administration should be tried on war crimes charges."
Then you quip:
"Freud's Narcissism of Small Differences confirmed?"
M-hm. Is that your own independent reference-- or have you been trolling through the antiwar salons and picking up trendy words and statements (like "Manichaean," "Debacle," and, now, "Freud's Narcissism of Small Differences") and carrying them on your tongue the way a conservative would wear an American flag lapel pin?
In Tolstoy's magnum opus *War & Peace,* your delicate crowd would feel most at home in the first part of the first book in the introductory St. Petersburg setting of the doyenne Anna Pavlovna's drawing room, where the hushed word "Antichrist"--referring to Napoleon--was then fashionable.
Now it's "Freud's Narcissism of Small Differences" that's passed around like a box of chocolate where each guest sharing in the sacrament samples his own confection that has its own unique blend of coconut or strawberry cream and then argues with his fellow finger-licking anti-warrior on which of those small differences best complement the flavor of the generic chocolate best.
Anyway, Republicus properly coupled Mamout with the Bush-Haters, by his very words and the target of his attack.
The Bush-Hater slides away from the obvious comparison between both the words and the directed spirit of the hostility and says, no, no, Mahmout is like Bush himself, "ripping a page out of Bush's playbook - appearing on stage with uniformed officers and being seein with clerics."
So you're compare the ceremonial trappings surrounding a POTUS at the United States Naval Academy with the militant sabre-rattling of an Islamo-fascist?
No! "However, he's no elitist-- (like the Everyman Bush?) he may be a maniac."
"Maybe?"
"We shall see.
Shan't we?"
Where have you been? Republicus has already seen it, and shown it:
"Israel should be wiped off the map."
"The Bush administration should be tried on war crimes charges."
Those are manias.
Your distancing yourselves from the comparison is simply a confirmation of Freuds Narcissism of Small Differences, which you accused the object--i.e. Bush (vis a vis Mahmout)--not the subject (you American Bush-haters vis a vis Mahmout)--of demonstrating.
Projection?
Of course.
Thank you for my next post, Jeff! :)
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