http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/10/15/the-national-endowment-for-democracys-forgotten-sordid-history/ Author James Bovard Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:40:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/10/15/the-national-endowment-for-democracys-forgotten-sordid-history/#comment-122142 Jim Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:08:26 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1222#comment-122142 Dirk, it would be a hoot to hear the average congressman attempt to sight-read GW's Farewell Address. They would struggle and stumble as if they were reading Swahili... Dirk, it would be a hoot to hear the average congressman attempt to sight-read GW’s Farewell Address. They would struggle and stumble as if they were reading Swahili…

]]> http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/10/15/the-national-endowment-for-democracys-forgotten-sordid-history/#comment-122141 Dirk W. Sabin Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:55:37 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1222#comment-122141 This notion of exporting democracy is one of the more quixotic bunko operations of U.S.. It possesses the dubiously compounded idiocy that democracy is always clean-cut and agreeable to us or that it really can be exported like a consumer product. But another revealing aspect of why George Washington's Farewell Address continues to be ignored and un-read in the well of Congress, as it was up to the 50's I think. Chaos makes money for the Beltway Set. This notion of exporting democracy is one of the more quixotic bunko operations of U.S.. It possesses the dubiously compounded idiocy that democracy is always clean-cut and agreeable to us or that it really can be exported like a consumer product. But another revealing aspect of why George Washington’s Farewell Address continues to be ignored and un-read in the well of Congress, as it was up to the 50’s I think. Chaos makes money for the Beltway Set.

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