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Besides, all we need do is sit back and let you conservatives engage the "say anything" strategery and you generate the self-contradictions all by yourselves.
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In it, diplomacy not defense was in the lead, and military power was a holding or enabling action until moral suasion had a chance to facilitate the collapse of the Soviet system under the weight of its self-contradictions through the connective and "corrosive power of freedom" -- which is exactly what happened in 1989.
Christopher Holshek: The 21st Century's 1989? Christopher Holshek 2011
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The most intellectually wonky of the Republican candidates for president, he has nevertheless been a study in ADD-like self-contradictions.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: Oh, Newt. Newt, Newt, Newt. Seriously? Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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As for the rest, it was a thin tissue of falsehoods, rhetorical legerdemain, telling omissions and self-contradictions.
An Anti-Israel President Bret Stephens 2011
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In it, diplomacy not defense was in the lead, and military power was a holding or enabling action until moral suasion had a chance to facilitate the collapse of the Soviet system under the weight of its self-contradictions through the connective and "corrosive power of freedom" -- which is exactly what happened in 1989.
Christopher Holshek: The 21st Century's 1989? Christopher Holshek 2011
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The most intellectually wonky of the Republican candidates for president, he has nevertheless been a study in ADD-like self-contradictions.
Shawn Lawrence Otto: Oh, Newt. Newt, Newt, Newt. Seriously? Shawn Lawrence Otto 2011
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And “good” is an amazing accomplishment given the self-contradictions inherent to the project:
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Which is why the Tea Party's agenda is rife with self-contradictions.
Deepak Chopra: Glenn Beck and the faithful are attacking faith Deepak Chopra 2010
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But the dignified part of government, if that is a thing people care for and want to respect, cannot easily coexist with a network-sweep of interviews, and jocular appearances on Leno and Letterman, and the proliferation of town-hall and other local settings, in which the questions come not from a reporter bristling with a record of your self-contradictions, but rather from a more benign version of Joe the Plumber.
David Bromwich: Will Obama Hold Another Press Conference? 2010
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Greed to claim supersession over, and displacement of, Judaism introduces self-contradictions that undermine and negate your arguments.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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