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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIrish-Americans, in particular, ought to reject Ryan's bilge.
Here's a quote from an important article regarding the GOP "intellectual" and his cultural heritage that he has abandoned to embrace Ayn Rand's heartless theories.
"Irish Alzheimers, goes the joke, is to forget everything but the grudges in the case of the great famine, for good reason. What Alexis de Tocqueville called 'the terrifying exactitude of memory' is burned into Irelands soil. But more than forgetting, Paul Ryan never learned."
Here's a link to the article- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/opinion/sunday/paul-ryans-irish-amnesia.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=1
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(7,051 posts)We can hold our own.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)chieftain
(3,222 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)My middle name is Erin.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Aristus
(66,409 posts)It's 'Paddy', as in Padraigh, Irish for 'Patrick'.
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,461 posts)campaign, but now continues to spout her filth.
chieftain
(3,222 posts)he is a liar.
Kingofalldems
(38,461 posts)chieftain
(3,222 posts)And the lazy/co-opted media allows them to get away with it. Money and media complicity are existential threats to democratic governance.