Comments on: Phoenix Tears Have Healing Powers…Or Were Those Chuck Norris’ Tears? http://larison.org/2007/12/06/phoenix-tears-have-healing-powersor-were-those-chuck-norris-tears/ n. the principle of good order "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Sat, 20 Mar 2010 07:44:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Leonard http://larison.org/2007/12/06/phoenix-tears-have-healing-powersor-were-those-chuck-norris-tears/#comment-8275 Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:22:16 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/12/06/phoenix-tears-have-healing-powersor-were-those-chuck-norris-tears/#comment-8275 I read the phoenix bit as Huck's way to criticize and distance himself from Bush without too overtly criticizing and distancing himself from Bush. Don't you think so? I read the phoenix bit as Huck’s way to criticize and distance himself from Bush without too overtly criticizing and distancing himself from Bush. Don’t you think so?

]]> by: joe@2parse http://larison.org/2007/12/06/phoenix-tears-have-healing-powersor-were-those-chuck-norris-tears/#comment-8272 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:15:51 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/12/06/phoenix-tears-have-healing-powersor-were-those-chuck-norris-tears/#comment-8272 Nice skewering of Huckabee. submitted the story to reddit - hope that gets the entry some deserved traffic. Nice skewering of Huckabee. submitted the story to reddit - hope that gets the entry some deserved traffic.

]]> by: Daniel Larison http://larison.org/2007/12/06/phoenix-tears-have-healing-powersor-were-those-chuck-norris-tears/#comment-8271 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:20:36 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/12/06/phoenix-tears-have-healing-powersor-were-those-chuck-norris-tears/#comment-8271 Thanks. The coincidence of Huckabee using both the phoenix image and the Norris endorsement was just too good to pass up. You may be right. I was overinterpreting that line. Thanks. The coincidence of Huckabee using both the phoenix image and the Norris endorsement was just too good to pass up. You may be right. I was overinterpreting that line.

]]> by: J Mann http://larison.org/2007/12/06/phoenix-tears-have-healing-powersor-were-those-chuck-norris-tears/#comment-8270 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:53:30 +0000 http://larison.org/2007/12/06/phoenix-tears-have-healing-powersor-were-those-chuck-norris-tears/#comment-8270 Very funny post, and I've appreciated your cynical take on all of the candidates. I thought the Sweden comment was basically fair, though. Sweden is well-chosen because Huckabee is trying his hardest *not* to say that he wants to treat Saudi Arabia badly. Taking him at his word, he would like to treat Saudi Arabia as if it were a small country, far away, in which we might have some moral and economic interests but no strong national interests one way or the other, as opposed to treating them as a vital guarantor of our energy supply. Of course, for real courage, I would like to see Huckabee say that he would like to treat *Israel* the way he would treat Sweden . . . Very funny post, and I’ve appreciated your cynical take on all of the candidates.

I thought the Sweden comment was basically fair, though. Sweden is well-chosen because Huckabee is trying his hardest *not* to say that he wants to treat Saudi Arabia badly. Taking him at his word, he would like to treat Saudi Arabia as if it were a small country, far away, in which we might have some moral and economic interests but no strong national interests one way or the other, as opposed to treating them as a vital guarantor of our energy supply.

Of course, for real courage, I would like to see Huckabee say that he would like to treat *Israel* the way he would treat Sweden . . .

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