this a a summary of how I remember the passage in the book:

A British officer was sent to deliver a letter from General Howe (I believe) addressed to ‘George Washington’. It was refused because Howe intentionally did not address Washington by his proper military title. On being told this, Howe scribbled ‘esq’ for ‘esquire’ after Washington’s name. Again the letter was refused but the courier was brought to Washington. The British officer argued that the word ‘esquire’ was proper address, because it can stand for everything. Washington replied: yes and and ‘anything’.

The letter was refused.

Washington was a great, great man

Gee, what would Bollinger have done. Danced a jig if the British asked and call them pigs later

Columbia is one messed up school.
SoulGlo on September 22, 2007 at 8:59 PM

No more than Yale and Stanford, not to mention Beserkley.

Sad to say, after Richard Shaw proudly recruited the Taliban (Hashemi) to Yale, Stanford (my alma meter, I’m embarrassed to say) recruited Shaw. BTW, note what TV network the Taliban’s ‘close friend’ worked for – CBS!!

In a second email, Shaw discussed Hashemi’s ability to contribute politically and wrote that he has “the potential to make a positive difference in seeking ways towards peace and democracy.”

Officially the second foreign secretary for Afghanistan in 2001, Hashemi toured the United States for several weeks in the spring of that year. During his trip, which included a visit to Yale, he defended the Taliban’s bombing of ancient Buddhist statues and the regime’s treatment of women.

Upon the attacks of Sept. 11 and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Hashemi and his family fled to Pakistan. There, Hashemi received a high-school equivalency degree and, after consulting with close friend and CBS reporter Mike Hoover, applied to Yale’s non-degree program for special students.

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/4/3/talibanAdmitHauntsShawAsStanfordLettersGoOut

The actual fascism in our world today is quite alive and unwell among today’s Leftwing.

S on September 24, 2007 at 3:36 AM

Thank you. Well put.
I am tired of this lie that Nazi were on the right side of the political agenda. They were leftists through and through. Free speech, nein…free enterprise, nein…state run schools, ya…state run papers, ya…freedom of thought, nein…state provided for all, ya…freedom of expression, nein (like the shouting down of conservatives on college campuses)…Oh and hate the Jews, YA!!
Sounds like the liberal movement to me.

Are you saying that Hitler would be considered a liberal speaker??? Oi Vey. Whenever the Left wishes to denigrate someone, they use either the word Nazi or the word fascist. That’s their F-word. That is why they always paint George Bush as Hitler…No, the Left only tolerates marxists, socialists, communists, feminists, muslims, africans, or any enemy of western, Christian civilization.== jihadwatcher on September 22, 2007 at 8:18 PM

The FACT is that Hitler represented a totalitarian end-result of SOCIALISM. Which is where fascism actually originates: socialism. Fascism is, in fact, the end result of socialism. Today’s Liberals refuse to accept their own behaviors for what they are, as also the damages they inflict on others, just.like.fascists.always.do and have throughout time. It’s a form of dictatorship by Liberalism run through to it’s extreme (look at all socialist dictators, look at the overall lexicon of Liberals today about everyone else, their intolerance for Conservativism, for Christian morality [for Christianity in general], etc.).

Fascism, in the “Hitler version” or “permutation” that was the Socialists in Germany under Hitler, was socialism, much like today’s Leftwing really, really, really wants to put into place in the U.S. And with that, would come most if not all the same suppressions and punishments upon everything not among the Liberal “state” — one does not have to look very far today to see it in action among the Left, the actual deployment of fascism.

The use of “Nazi” in regards Bush is just more of the insanity from the Left — they don’t even understand what “Nazi” actually means, or, if they do, they’re repeatedly trying to point down the street to redirect the attention away from the actual fascists (again, like all fascists tend to do, try to redirect responsibility away from themselves, as in, “I know nothing,” “I wasn’t involved,” “it wasn’t me, it was them/him/it”) while they continue to do their damage.

The actual fascism in our world today is quite alive and unwell among today’s Leftwing.

I have it in my head somehow that Dwight Eisenhower, when offered the opportunity to personally accept the surrender of a German general, refused. So unspeakably loathsome did he find the Nazis that he wouldn’t dignify them with his presence, even at the moment of triumph. I can’t find an account of that online, though. Anyone able to help?

I just watched that bit of news along with actual newsreel footage of Eisenhower and other U.S. military, as to accepting the presence of Hitler’s assistant, “JURL” or something like that, on THE HISTORY CHANNEL. Eisenhower was said to have “entertained” him but only so much as that meant Eisenhower allowed the man to be somewhat in his presence long enough to be told he was due punishment and that the surrender was accepted. Eisenhower, like a gentleman and a sane and conscienable human being, would not shake the man’s hand nor otherwise interact with him. HISTORY CHANNEL just last night…

The Cowboy tilted up his hat, adjusted his tooth pick and said, “That’s cause we ain’t played Cowboys and Muslims yet.”
- Unknown

MB4 on September 22, 2007 at 8:39 PM

Heheh!

Somebody get the tweezers.

Screw that noise.

Hot Air brings us the Dean of Columbia who doesn’t even have the common courtesy to blush What more to add about the broken moral compass of the Left? Technorati: Columbia, Ahmadinejad……

I hope this event turns to bite them in the ass.

But then, so is allowing him to enter the United States, even to visit the UN council. First, here’s what was reported yesterday (via Melanie Phillips), and Mitt Romney summed it up correctly about the monster…