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there's been a cease-fire with al-sadr's mahdi army for the duration of the "surge." i don't suppose fox news puts a big emphasis on that part--i happened to stumble across the endless blah blah blah of faix news the other night and say that nitwit morton kondrackie making almost exactly your argument, scout.
if you leave out enough information and are politically motivated to boot, anything can be made into anything.
as for obama--my suspicion is that the entire impetus to make this photo-op trip is coming from the right. but the right is is huge trouble these days, as i hope you'll see in spades in a few months (but who knows in this bizarre-o place)--i don't see them as being able to call the shots any more. so if there's no particular reason to go or not go, except in that the conservative talking-head class is braying for it to happen, and if that talking-head class has no particular traction, except for amongst the choir it preaches to, then why on earth would obama do it? think about it tactically--why would he cede this to the imploding right? why should he cede anything to the right? why should anyone?
this is really little more than an influence test, a meme making its way across the american media apparatus. there's no reason to take it seriously if you're not predisposed to think that conservatives setting the ideological and tactical agenda for the election is desirable. i am not one of those people.
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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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