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if you think about it, the curious aspect of this affair is really that obama reacted. if conservativeland is once again a fringe affair and its inhabitants pissy because they cannot adjust to their new and richly deserved fringe status, it would follow that most of their ideological claims and strategies would also be fringe affairs--so the conservative "understanding" of racism as a type of sentence unhinged from any reference to material or historical reality--that is fringe stuff, and you would think that the days of its traction would be over. so it's a little surprising obama reacted, and that mostly because it gave the inhabitants of conservativeland a chance to pretend that theirs is not in fact a marginal, fringe area of the ideological world.
conservatives increasingly talk only to themselves.
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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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