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i think that if this is the case, it's an instance of obama's campaign walking into the trivia trap that is this "issue"---by responding, you accept the terms of discussion that go along with it.
given that the conventional wisdom is that the conflict between the campaigns is over undecided voters who, for reasons that i do not entirely understand, are said to be "centrists" this atwater/rove style move seems to be seen as a problem by the obama camp.
that is it based on nothing beyond redbaiting, nothing beyond distortion and the use of the word "terrorist" in association with the word "obama" seems to not be seen as a consistently trivial matter by obama's campaign, presumably because of the associations that are bundled around the "undecided voters"
i am not sure that obama really needs these voters, but that sort of view might also explain why i am not working for his campaign. well that and i didn't ask.
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