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i don't think w was w before 9/11/2001, even though it's kinda hard to imagine his administration without that huge gift from the gods that watch over neoconservatism that were those attacks. while i don't subscribe entirely to the cowboy george as total idiot school, i do think he was a kind of cipher with a dangerous bunch of people on his team---lately i have been a bit preoccupied with the cheney/addington nexus as i think them genuinely dangerous for their legal philosophy---but (again) i don't know how things would have played out without 9/11/2001 to shuffle the deck.
the point is that i don't see how at this phase of the game you can really make much of any evaluations of what obama might be like in office. i think that things will start to become a bit clearer after august and the nomination, once you start to get an idea of the configuration around obama, what it'll look like.
right now, it seems that mostly what's at stake is whether you or i or anyone else finds obama-the-signifier appealing or not.
that's what's being fashioned, and not much more than that.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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