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Charles Krauthammer says goodbye.

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Conervative-but-not-crazy columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer announces that his retirement has been compelled by his imminent demise. His positions were often hard to swallow, but he was always intelligent and knowledgable, and his personal story -- getting through medical school and embarking on a distinguished career after being paralyzed for life in an accident -- was an inspiration to anyone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?noredirect=on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer
 
Bob001 said:
Conervative-but-not-crazy columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer announces that his retirement has been compelled by his imminent demise. His positions were often hard to swallow, but he was always intelligent and knowledgable, and his personal story -- getting through medical school and embarking on a distinguished career after being paralyzed for life in an accident -- was an inspiration to anyone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?noredirect=on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer
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I had no idea he was a quadriplegic. Not my side of economics but I never thought he drank the Fox koolaid.
 
I did not agree with Krauthamer during the Obama years, but he always kept his attacks to Obama's policies, never played the race card,and rejected the conspiracy theories as crap.
 
Bob001 said:
Conervative-but-not-crazy columnist and commentator Charles Krauthammer announces that his retirement has been compelled by his imminent demise. His positions were often hard to swallow, but he was always intelligent and knowledgable, and his personal story -- getting through medical school and embarking on a distinguished career after being paralyzed for life in an accident -- was an inspiration to anyone.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...e8-bea7-c8eb28bc52b1_story.html?noredirect=on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer
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Dying from cancer is not a happy ending but one less pro-israel neocon is always a good thing.
 
CaptainHowdy said:
Dying from cancer is not a happy ending but one less pro-israel neocon is always a good thing.
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Gee -I disagree with Krauthammer on almost every issue, including many of Israel's policies, and I do not think dying makes one a saint or post-humously correct. I even more strongly disagree with, and I am even angered by, many of the views some post to this forum, including yours. Yet I would not view his death, their deaths, or your death, as a good thing.

And if you hope your views to prevail by this mechanism of attrition you will have to wait for a lot, lot more people to die.
 
Craig4 said:
I didn't agree with him all that often but he was one of the few on that network who stayed loyal to the country after Trump was elected. Staying loyal in that den of traitors took some moral courage I'm sure.
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Yeah, that's exactly what I think of when Krauthammer comes up: A guy who stood up for his beliefs. Especially when those beliefs involved killing people.
 
I read and watched Krauthammer, who is one of very, very few people capable of independent thought, and then I see pot shots here that would embarrass a 4 year old.

You don't even think. You regurgitate memetic defense mechanisms for your quasi-religion. There is no thought there, just a mechanical operation as the memeplex that has seized control of the gears in your skull activates you to defend it.

Zero. Independent. Thought.

There are, or were, four people I recognized as capable of independent thought. Him, George Will, Roger Ebert, and Christopher Hitchens.

Please stay out of the grownup areas, children.
 
Beerina said:
I read and watched Krauthammer, who is one of very, very few people capable of independent thought, and then I see pot shots here that would embarrass a 4 year old.

You don't even think. You regurgitate memetic defense mechanisms for your quasi-religion. There is no thought there, just a mechanical operation as the memeplex that has seized control of the gears in your skull activates you to defend it.

Zero. Independent. Thought.

There are, or were, four people I recognized as capable of independent thought. Him, George Will, Roger Ebert, and Christopher Hitchens.

Please stay out of the grownup areas, children.
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Krauthammer was fairly good at basic argument. Will, too. Ebert, I suppose, but I find Hitchens much less impressive.

Your list should include David Brooks (though his topics are not always interesting to me).
 
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