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of COURSE the overall status quo is being protected/maintained. you really didn't believe the characterisations of obama as some kind of left radical, did you powerclown? no-one believed that. i know people who were dancing in the streets when obama was elected--because he wasn't a republican, because of who he is---but no-one in their right mind thought that he was any kind of Radical.
if you had been living under a rock for the interminable television spectacle of run-up to the dribbling conclusion of the bush fiasco, and so missed all the nonsensical framing and reframing of obama as this or that image, and surfaced near the end, and decided to try to figure out where obama stood, the information was readily available: in the decision to continue in afghanistan you could have seen a basic acceptance of the idea of the "war on terror"---it was just a narrower interpretation of it than the bush people tried to generate, and so didn't include the iraq debacle--but it DID include al-qeada---and apparently the taliban (situational dynamics which result from yet another dimension of the incompetence of the bush squad resulted in swapping out the object of the "war on terror" for another object)---the array of compromises of principle that came along with this "war on terror" were also not in themselves Problematic--rather obama seemed to have understood that among the central problems caused by the overwhelming incompetence of the bush squad was POLITICAL and so giving the APPEARANCE of breaking with that period of overwhelming incompetence was task 1. there was NEVER any indication of a wholesale break.
the list can be extended in almost any direction.
so i don't know what you're talking about, powerclown: you seem to be working your way through your own private drama in which things really are as the ultra-right tried to portray them.
that was never the case.
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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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