9.25.2008

Cue Germanic Invasions?

Possibly missing from Paulson's "To-Read" list:
-Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
Two short items he's likely already checked off his "To-Read" list:
1) "The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened." – Norman Thomas, prominent 1940's era American socialist

2)
"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism." - Nikita Krushchev
Yes, let's now go and "assist our elected leaders", shall we? Need some help with that sledge-hammer, Dick Durbin?

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