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THE PLANK FEBRUARY 1, 2008

What's Great About America

BY JAMES KIRCHICK

You know what's great about America? The fact that that "a person can come and even make a disruption, and you know what, that person is not going to be taken out and shot."

That and fried squirrels.

--James Kirchick

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The hecklers were a few Code Pinkers. A Huckster-CodePinker encounter requires the Williamyard treatment.

Bill?

- teplukhin2you

February 1, 2008 at 4:23pm

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Somewhere, Dick Cheney is gnashing his teeth at the very notion.

- adaglas

February 1, 2008 at 4:28pm

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If you fry them as fillets in a skillet using a non fat coating like Pam, you get that great squirrel protein,  truly a gift from God, reminding us of His vast benificence, (and with a nary a milli-ounce of bad fat.)

"Bill?"

I know Williamyard. Alas I am no Williamyard.

- basman

February 1, 2008 at 5:29pm

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Then Cheney muttered, "I've got almost 12 more months. Don't speak so soon, Huck."

- WoodyBombay

February 1, 2008 at 5:32pm

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"There's even some serious debate about the kind of lethal injections we use."

- guyminuslife

February 1, 2008 at 5:51pm

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"There's even some serious debate about the kind of lethal injections we use." - guyminuslife

7 out of 8 didn't so much as give Cheney a common cold.

- Bukharin

February 1, 2008 at 6:56pm

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Yeah, because America is unique in not shooting protestors.  Why, if that incident happened in Japan, France or Mexico, the protestors would be shot on the spot.

What an utterly contemptible, provincial ignoramus Mike Huckabee is.  I'll say that one of the things that doesn't make America great is the fact that he is even a topic of conversation, outside of a circus sideshow.  

- myzaguirre

February 1, 2008 at 9:04pm

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or Brazil!

- barbara1

February 1, 2008 at 9:18pm

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I may not agree with all of his political positions, but I have to admit ... I'd rather hang out with Mike Huckabee than Hillary Clinton.

- epackard-02

February 1, 2008 at 11:32pm

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Fried squirrels are okay, but as an ingredient in gumbo they are tremendous.  Huckabee is for sure one of the Great Things About America, Most of the negative responses he's been subject to from elites in BOTH parties is either pure bigotry, or reflections of it from otherwise sensible people who swallow uncritically all sorts of gossip about what Huck really believes.

If  Repubs are smart enough to nominate McCain/Huckabee, and Dems are stupid enough to nominate Hillary without Obama as running mate, all you effete coastal types may have to eat crow AND squirrel.

- Robert Powell

February 2, 2008 at 5:19am

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