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ace...it's funny that you persist in imagining some unified front of support for obama that is bothered by what the conservative factoid machine generates as paper-thin "critiques." they amount to almost nothing but they continue to be produced and dutifully repeated. if you read them from even a slightly dispassionate position---which i try to do, believe it or not, until i start laughing---it is obvious that this is not about obama at all, really. it is about maintaining a sense of coherence for the conservative brand by maintaining a sense of coherence amongst its demographic. that's all that's happening, ace. so there's little possibility of waking back up after this because there's no there there apart from conservative self-help.
the underlying assumption behind all of this nonsense, when you strip away the ludicrous rhetoric of "hypocrisy" and other such, is basically that george w bush represented a kind of pure recognition of raison d'etat (look it up)--which is hilarious---so that any accomodation that obama finds himself making as he moves (and he still is) into occupying power on an everyday scale, so every rapprochement with the notion of raison d'etat, amounts to a vindication of george w bush.
once upon a time the neocons could be seen as the mayberry machiavellians. now, in the pathetic afterglow of 8 years of the bush administration, the collective memorybanks of the conservative factoid-generating machine has been purged of any trace of contact with machiavelli.
it's funny stuff.
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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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