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----- Original Message ----- From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Calabresi: Bush's rise like Hitler's or Mussolini's
> Calabresi's line of thinking is interesting -
> thinking out
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> of the box. Being elderly, with little fear of being
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> he speaks his mind. How old do we need to be to say
> something
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> very obvious and potentially conflict- ridden? >
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> [This guy is a serious ruling-class character, no?]
He's one of the most respected judges in the country, and used to be a legal academic of formidable reputation. There is something to having a judiciary with life tenure . . . . However, it's pretty astounding to have a judge make that kind of public intervention in politics.
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> New York Sun - June 21, 2004
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> AUDIENCE GASPS AS JUDGE LIKENS ELECTION OF BUSH TO
> RISE OF IL DUCE
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> 2nd Circuit's Calabresi Also Compares Bush's Rise to
> That of Hitler
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