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well, the other confusion comes from the fact that conservatives seem to operate with a special definition of time. obama is not being consistent at this moment. now at this moment. now at this one. look how many moments pass while inconsistency obtains. that way, the space between, say, yesterday's senate vote and this morning's speech about gitmo can appear to be made up of millions of individual inconsistencies. so what might appear to other people as a mere 24 hours to the right is now as many things as they decide they want.
same thing with the logic that informs comparisons for other people. if conservatives say that oranges and wombats are elements of the same set, then goddamn it they are. afghanistan, iraq: same thing. well, to the outside world, what these two fine situations have in common is that they're debacles brought on, cultivated and brought to a glorious fruitition by that special brand of utter incompetence that was the bush administration. but in special land, they are essentially alike and it's all obama's fault.
in special world, conservatives who opposed even talking about the torture carried out by the bush administration can complain about the stoppage of photo releases.
while i have been typing this, another Mountain of Inconsistencies has piled up.
there's another one.
there's another.
such a Big Mountain made up of so many moments.
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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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