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the problem with this wrangling is that it's public. because it's public, it's theater. because it's theater, it isn't going to be read as transparent, and so it looks like the mc-cain campaign is trying to get someone self-evidently sympathetic to a conservative outlook to "moderate" the debate. but if the campaign's really concerned, and if it imagines that it actually had the possibility of changing the moderation--as if that matters---you'd think they'd play this in a backchannel manner. so the fact that it's public seems to indicate that there's no hope of this happening, and what's being set up is a proactive tactic aimed at providing an explanation for failure.
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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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