Reid: A Modern Copperhead
The only dis-satifaction I have with OpinionJournal.com is that Mr. Taranto does not provide a link to his own posting, only that of the work prodict of others. Too bad, because often his insight is what makes the links he provides take meaning. Anyway, my latest find over there I shall print in full below. It is a historical comparison between the defeatist words of Harry Reid this week and the defeatist words of the so-called Copperheads of the Civil War era. I hope that this re-posting does not violate any fair use standards. My apologies now if it does.
Latter-Day CopperheadInteresting how consistent the Democrats are over all of these decades isn't it? They want to cut and run now just as they wanted to do so then. Btw, the Union won that war in spite of the Copperheads.* "I believe . . . that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week."--Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, April 19, 2007
* "Resolved, that this convention does explicitly declare, as the sense of the American people, that after four years of failure to restore the Union by the experiment of war, during which, under the pretence of military necessity, or war power higher than the Constitution, the Constitution itself has been disregarded in every part, and public liberty and private right alike trodden down, and the material prosperity of the country essentially impaired, justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare demand that immediate efforts be made for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of the States or other peaceable means, to the end that at the earliest practicable moment peace may be restored on the basis of the federal Union of the States."--1864 Democratic platform
Update: Mr. Taranto has followed up by pointing us to a NY Sun story which elaborates on the theme.
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If you look in the upper-right corner of the page, Best of the Web has a little yellow block with links in it. One of the links is to the "Previous Day" for BOTW. If you click that, you're on whatever the previous day's BOTW was, and it's a permalink. Better still, there's always a "Next Day" link whenever you're on a page earlier than the latest installment. If you click on that one when you're on (in this case) Thursday's BOTW, you're on the permalink for Friday's page, and it looks like this:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110009969
Unfortunately, there's usually not a link directly to each entry in the page (using something called an "anchor"), but if you find that Taranto has linked to an entry from a later date (like this one), he's added an anchor to the code for that entry, and you can steal it for your own reference to the same spot.
There are lots of tricks like this that we geeks don't explain to you, because we forget not everyone is as geeky as we are.
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April 21, 2007 08:19 PM
Thank you, that is marginally helpful, though I can't imagine that I will remember to come back a day later to grab the link for something that catches me in the moment. Linking to the entire current day's body of his work is an option I would not have elected, but one that would work to capture the interesting work amongst the entire page. As I said, a link to each entry would be better.
I am surprised to learn that you forget there are those of us who are not as geeky as the rest of you, for, I thought your job was helping people decipher their computer's functions.
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April 23, 2007 08:49 AM
It's always hard to fight instinct.
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April 23, 2007 09:24 AM