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short historical memories are at play here again--tecoyah is right---but no matter for american conservatives, it seems. past, present, future: all rhetorical spaces to be filled in with arbitrary assertions.
besides, the content of the election was a priori secondary for the bush administration: all that mattered was and is form. that it happened....or, rather, that something that can be called an election happened, which allows for statements concerning the period before elections and the period after elections, which in turn allows for an illusion of progress. at the level of content, there can be infinite problems and form is still all that matters. no-one could have voted, nothing been decided, and the administration would still say the same thing, because (apparently) the illusion of movement can be substituted for a strategy, the illusion of movement is a strategy.
let's see: no elections monitors.
no real campaign
100 candidates on a ballot, amy of whom had not left their houses for months
the sunni population in the main not voting.
but then again, you have the american way of counting votes, which inflates the percentage that did vote into a representation of the entire population such that, for example in reagans "landslide" 27% of the total registered voters could be understood as an overwhleming majority. which is designed to assure the illusion of movement by not thinking about anything that would run counter to it.
of course, the problem with pointing this out lay with the person who points it out.
qed
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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