[Marxism] (fwd) Mealymouthed, pathetic

[Les Schaffer]

[forwarded for Einde]



Shane Mage wrote:
> On Sep 28, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
>
>> http://www.thenation.com/blogs/dreyfuss/365222/verdict_on_obama_mealymouthed_pathetic 
>>
>> Verdict on Obama: Mealymouthed, Pathetic
>> posted by Robert Dreyfuss on 09/27/2008 @ 09:53am
>> ... Obama said... And to countries like Georgia and the Ukraine...
>
> Not only McMelanoma (of course) but everyone else seems not to
> have noticed this spectacular foreign-policy gaffe:  to call Ukraina
> "the Ukraine" (meaning the (Russia's) borderland)  has to be 
> offensive  in the extreme to all Ukrainian patriots--the very people 
> he wants in  NATO!
>
Since neither Russian nor Ukrainian has a definite article is is 
unlikely that anybody will notice.