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personally, what i think is making the mc-cain people sweat is that among the effects of 8 long miderable years of george w bush et al is the possibility that conservative identity politics will no longer work. what the anti-christ ad is about works in a straight line from the advert they were running during the olympics---an advert that didn't make a whole lot of sense logically if you paid attention to the irritating voice-over rather than focusing on the bright letters that effectively said YOU CONSERVATIVES: YOU ARE AFRIAD OF THESE THINGS...i dont see mc-cain as having any particular affinity with the conservative far-right politics or the demographic that was backed into supporting it---backed into because what seems to have held the coalition together was commonalities in things to be afraid of, to reject---and if the above is right, then the strategy so far is not "vote for mc-cain" but rather "be fafraid of barack obama"
which is strange given how much conservative political talk goes in for manly man postures on questions of foreign policy.
well, maybe it's not so strange. not if you're a bit cynical about things.
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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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