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o for god's sake, this is just goofy.
the right has a problem with the present--in most ways, it is a disaster and they have no-one to blame but themselves for it--and they are worried about having to take the hit for this fiasco that is their policy record on the 7th.
enter john kerry.
what does he say....well in context it is pretty clear what he said. but hey, who cares about context? you can make anything mean anything if you strip out context, and from the op all the way down, you get repetitions of the conservative context-free misinterpretations of the remark.
"harumph harumph he is dissing our troops blah blah blah" as if THAT was the problem in iraq.
it is fucking ludicrous.
you gotta hand it to rove, though: this is an well played little pseudo-controversy. it is doing what it was set up to do.
it was convenient for him that the speaker was john kerry, wasnt it?
who could have been better?
have fun rerunning 2004 folks--the right is still heading at a high speed toward a very large wall on tuesday, and if you folks can find a little hiding place for a few days in this worthless pile of horseshit, well have fun there. we'll chat next wednesday about how big a deal this turns out to be. in the meantime, all i see in it is a curious reflection of the collective psychological state shared by conservatives who face a very bad outlook in the short-run indeed.
denial can be such fun, can't it?
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