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"Mr. President, you have a busy schedule today. Since you agreed to meet with Sheehan again, to be fair we've added the other 1799 fallen enlisted's families to your appointment schedule. Twice. Glad you got that one meeting with her out of the way. One down... Positive thinking ya'know. We've cleared your calendar for the next nine months."

I know her loss and feel for her but she needs help that's beyond a politician's training.

From the impersonal point of view, it's a horse-race. A produced episodic drama. Schiavo deja vu.

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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195