Ah yes, David123, "Also remember, in 1985 there were no personal computers or lap tops and only business offices had Word Processors" - I guess YOU (and most other 20 yr olds or whatever) don't remember; 'course many of us 'older' folk remember the IBM PC introduced in 1981 (with word processor), and by 1985 there WERE 'portable' computers (Compaq) although it's extremely unlike ly Mrs Obama would've had one. Also some would remember Apple (II), Atari (mainly games), etc. from well before the '80s. Most of all these technologies were well into their 2nd, 3rd generations by 1985, expressly for 'personal' use, and many Universities had access to them.
"To dig up Michelles thesis from 1985 and to pick apart every single word and sentence and give it some kind of psychological importance that isnt warranted is scraping the bottom of the barrel." - Hitchens hardly 'picked apart every word'; mostly he found it unreadable (as I did; perhaps "unbearable" more like).
"If anything, to criticize Barak or Michelle based upon this simplistic thesis, is blatant racism." Of course; and then you continue onto the usual, boring, hypocrisy:
"T...
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Posted on May 14, 2008
Ah yes, David123, "Also remember, in 1985 there were no personal computers or lap tops and only business offices had Word Processors" - I guess YOU (and most other 20 yr olds or whatever) don't remember; 'course many of us 'older' folk remember the IBM PC introduced in 1981 (with word processor), and by 1985 there WERE 'portable' computers (Compaq) although it's extremely unlike ly Mrs Obama would've had one. Also some would remember Apple (II), Atari (mainly games), etc. from well before the '80s. Most of all these technologies were well into their 2nd, 3rd generations by 1985, expressly for 'personal' use, and many Universities had access to them. "To dig up Michelles thesis from 1985 and to pick apart every single word and sentence and give it some kind of psychological importance that isnt warranted is scraping the bottom of the barrel." - Hitchens hardly 'picked apart every word'; mostly he found it unreadable (as I did; perhaps "unbearable" more like). "If anything, to criticize Barak or Michelle based upon this simplistic thesis, is blatant racism." Of course; and then you continue onto the usual, boring, hypocrisy: "T...