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if you want to have a discussion based on a historical parallel things are typically helped along by having at least some idea of the historical material that's being played with---because in this case that's all we're seeing here---a rhetorical trial balloon coming from the fetid intellectual swamp of the right to see if against all reason and historical information obama can be superimposed on herbert hoover, who was a freemarketeer for the most part, presumably so that the republicans can then sweep in on some imaginary plane and frame exactly the same capitalist metaphysics that's work out o so fucking well over the past 30 years as if it is some kind of new deal. i dont know who they imagine they're talking to...maybe the same imaginary constituency they think voted for scott brown. the republicans now seem to think they're independent of their own record of being in power, independent of the bush period, independent of history, independent of reality so they can draw all other idenpendents their way.
so in that independent of interest kinda way we're being asked to consider in an independent of historical information so independent of logic scenario whether obama might be equated with herbert hoover.
i mean seriously ace. this isn't even your fault. you just gave it a try.
it's perfectly reasonable to see this move for what it is and not talk about the questions you pose. to do that would accept the frame you trot out. i think the frame is absurd.
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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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