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Call Me Ishmael. Choux 10/26/05
    "I was a crewmember aboard the Pequod when Captain Ahab went hunting for the white whale known as Moby Dick.

    For Ahab, the white whale became the embodiment of all that was evil in the world. He assembled a crew of 30 from various backgrounds and origins, not revealing his primary cause until they are well out to sea.

    As the lone survivor, Herman Melville placed the burden on me to tell the tragic events of how a crew was destroyed because it went along with a mission of megalomania that offered little chance for survival.

    I fear that 21st century America may be suffering from the effects of what I call the “Ahab Complex.”

    One of the great lessons from that tragic voyage, and there are many, was that the crew was never honest about Ahab’s quest. Likewise, the crew was never honest with themselves".

    -Byron Williams-essay cut and pasted from
    Huffington Post Blog Site


    What say you?

      Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 10/26/05 3:12 pm:
      Well Ishmael, I thought it was Rove that had the power, you know, "Bush's brain." Bush is Moby Dick, the embodiment of all that is evil in the world and the left's Ahab complex is going to backfire - again and again.

 
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Itsdb 10/26/05
I would expand on tom's theory to include all of liberal America's megalomaniacal mission to destroy the Bush administration. From the continued obsession with the 2000 election (Molly Ivins mentioned it her latest), to Iraq, Rathergate, Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, Plamegate, Katrina, FEMA, et al.

Steve

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