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Staph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 03:48 PM
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NPR is covering the Values Voters Forum
One woman interviewed said that she feels like Goliath. She feels people like her are strong and, I suppose, gigantic.

Unfortunately, she appears to be biblically illiterate. For those of you not familiar, Goliath was a great warrior of the Philistines, who was killed by future king of Israel David, killed by a stone flung from a sling.

So she wants to compare herself and her cohorts as a giant killed by the good guy. Oh, and that means she must think of herself as a Philistine, once a native of the southern coast of Canaan, but now viewed as "a person deficient in the culture of the liberal arts, or a smug and intolerant opponent of the bohemian, one who exhibits a restrictive moral code" (thanks to Wikipedia!).

I think she is absolutely correct!
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county worker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 04:05 PM
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1. The right takes ownership of words the screws up the definition so no one else can use them.
They are the "Values" voters. Only they have values? Other words, heritage, patriot, freedom, reverence for life, moral, elite,
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-18-09 04:10 PM
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2. And the stupidity of reagan using Born in the USA as a campaign song
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