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An NH Liberal's Christmas letter - from Fergus Cullen

by: susanthe

Sat Dec 20, 2008 at 01:11:18 AM EST

http://www.unionleader.com/col...

Fergus the Former penned this little masterpiece in 2006.

SEASON'S GREETINGS from the O'Bama family in Blue Hampshire! As we write this year's holiday form letter, our excitement following November's elections is tempered by our usual December outrage at the seasonal assault on the separation of church and state.

Ah, Fergus, Fergus - trying to fan the flames of Billo's war on Christmas - the war that years later isn't being fought by anyone but right wing ideologues.

Take a moment to read the prose of the bard of the NH GOP - and reflect. This letter offers some real insight into why the NH Republican Party is continuing to lose membership and elections.

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An NH Liberal's Christmas letter - from Fergus Cullen | 18 comments

Loved the kid's names (4.00 / 1)

Who knew that Fergus had such talent as a satirist? I wonder if he is still telling jokes these days as he sits beleagured in NH GOP headquarters?

I particularly liked the names Fergus gave Mr. O'Bama's kids- Sunshine and Zephyr. I sincerely hope that Sarah Palin doesn't read this column, as these names will give her all the incentive she needs to adopt a set of twins. Think of it: Track, Willow, Piper, and Trig, to be joined by Sunshine, and Zephyr.

by: Michael Marsh @ Sat Dec 20, 2008 at 05:44:32 AM CST

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one more name (4.00 / 4)

Stash, after Willow's mother-in-law

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg

by: JonnyBBad @ Sat Dec 20, 2008 at 06:51:54 AM CST

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I read somewhere (4.00 / 1)

that Sarah and Todd wanted to have another wone to name "Zamboni," so Sunshine and Zephyr would be an improvement!

by: susanthe @ Sat Dec 20, 2008 at 09:16:27 AM CST

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Hmmm.. (4.00 / 1)

Zamboni, huh? I thought I saw someplace that the next Palin was going to be named Pipeline!! (with the double exclamation points), but maybe I misread the article.

by: Michael Marsh @ Sat Dec 20, 2008 at 11:02:18 AM CST

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doggone it Michael (0.00 / 0)

Swing on by to check out the 12 Days of Christmas as sung by our friends at the Mudflats blog, in Alaska - you betcha you won't be sorry!

http://www.themudflats.net/200...

by: susanthe @ Sat Dec 20, 2008 at 18:50:10 PM CST

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'what a trip'- Bristol Palin Edition (0.00 / 0)

she named her son (drumroll please)
Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston.

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does." Allen Ginsberg

by: JonnyBBad @ Mon Dec 29, 2008 at 20:47:06 PM CST

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Has she taken the Johnston name? (0.00 / 0)

That seems premature...

by: elwood @ Tue Dec 30, 2008 at 06:00:21 AM CST

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Must be after Tripp Jones (0.00 / 0)

How postpartisan.

by: JimC @ Tue Dec 30, 2008 at 08:50:22 AM CST

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You can't write something like that about liberals (4.00 / 4)

And then whine that liberals think they're better than everybody else.

by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Sat Dec 20, 2008 at 13:48:34 PM CST

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Fergus' love letter to BH (0.00 / 0)

gets better and better every year.

by: Dean Barker @ Sat Dec 20, 2008 at 18:02:13 PM CST

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Reminds me of the movie Platoon (0.00 / 0)

I recall that movie being criticized because it packed all and everything bad about the war into the story of one platoon. Stone fended off the critics saying that the plot was a composite of events. Of course, no one platoon ever went through all these terrible, and sometimes wonderful, things.

Fergus offers some insight that is definately "over the top." But it it hard to deny that he has acurately captured chunks of the liberal idiom. If you haven't seen snippets of the O'Bama family in yourselves, family, friends and political allies; I dare say, you are in severe denial.

www.KusterforCongress.com

by: Jack Mitchell @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 08:13:04 AM CST

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It's not about whether or not there's a factual basis. (0.00 / 0)

It's about mocking people. There are things one can say in private, that might even be funny, that the Chair of a political party cannot write in the newspaper.

by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 15:13:46 PM CST

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I'm pretty sure (0.00 / 0)

he wrote this before he became the chair of the NH GOP.

by: susanthe @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 16:03:16 PM CST

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December 06. It's not like he wrote it in high school. (0.00 / 0)

And even if he had written it while he was Chair and just sent it to a few friends, it wouldn't be the same thing as having a link to it from the homepage at ferguscullen.com.

by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 21:14:43 PM CST

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OR (0.00 / 0)

write on a blog. (LOL)

Democrats solve problems, Republicans sit and say no.

by: Ray Buckley @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 19:34:26 PM CST

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ha! (0.00 / 0)

by: susanthe @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:30:56 PM CST

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Well said. (0.00 / 0)

Seriously, though, he's not just mocking liberal politicians, he's mocking voters.

No wonder there are fewer Republicans than Democrats in our state for the first time ever.

by: Douglas E. Lindner @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 21:08:39 PM CST

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Point (0.00 / 0)

I'll give Fergus a point for this passage:

It was a year of travel for the O'Bamas. We went to Washington, D.C., to protest the war, to Houston to picket outside Tom Delay's office and to Connecticut to campaign for Ned Lamont. Our planned trip to Florida to protest the Bush administration's handling of hurricane relief efforts had to be canceled.

But in general I think P.J. O'Rourke can sleep soundly.

by: JimC @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 17:41:15 PM CST

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