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yeah see more data-free nonsense. on what planet is the obama administration "anti-business"---i mean apart from the editorial pages of the ibd and in the la-la land of the teabaggers of course. out there is zanyworld anything goes in terms of obama-oriented invective it seems. doesn't matter if its true or not. but you'd think that at some point facts would have to enter into it. like the fact that obama is a political centrist. like the fact that even if he were a social democrat that there's no contradiction between bidness and social democracy. but you'd have to know what you're talking about to get that point. and there's no requirement of that in us politics.
which loops back to the op---it seems that the thread is already a kind of performance of the unwillingness of folk who debate political questions to address the underlying conceptual and/or affective interests/orientations that shape-to-determine their political viewpoints. the exceptions in the thread have already tried to address some of these questions, and the more conservative folk have brushed them aside. i think there's something of interest in that. i wonder if there is in fact a correlation between being somewhere between naive in philosophical matters and conservative political orientations. seems like it.
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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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