http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/bush_edits_out_jeffersons_reli.php Comments & Reviews of http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/bush_edits_out_jeffersons_reli.php on StumbleUpon en-us Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:08:35 -0800 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:16:59 -0800 http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/bush_edits_out_jeffersons_reli.php http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:48:44 -0700 http://stevedtrm.stumbleupon.com/review/23191745/ stevedtrm - From the page: "Jefferson made many such statements, of course. Clearly they are best edited out by those who advocate nothing if not monkish ignorance and superstition."]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/bush_edits_out_jeffersons_reli.php Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:28:18 -0700 http://avangionq.stumbleupon.com/review/23175388/ AvangionQ - "May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government." - Thomas Jefferson ... an amazing quote towards equality, knowledge, small government and freedom from religious persecution -- admirable qualities that the Bush Administration have seem to have either forgotten or intentionally ignored ...]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/bush_edits_out_jeffersons_reli.php Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:18:47 -0700 http://seasandcakes.stumbleupon.com/review/23164752/ seasandcakes - That's a pretty good catch - Bush deliberately excludes the middle of a Jefferson quote, which sets up the entire quote's anti-religious meaning.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/bush_edits_out_jeffersons_reli.php Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:55:58 -0700 http://msiegel.stumbleupon.com/review/23160089/ msiegel - magnificent example of using a person's words for the *opposite* of what was intended... in this case, George W Bush vs Thomas Jefferson]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2008/07/bush_edits_out_jeffersons_reli.php