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Weak-minded, open-minded, or underhanded?
Saletan asks wether Obama is weak or open-minded for changing his position on a number of national security realted issues. He fails to acknowledge the possibility -- indeed the likelihood -- of a third explanation: Obama, like all politicians, said what was politically expedient on the campaign trail, knowing full well that it reflected neither ...
Posted to Frame Game by etymologue on May 20, 2009
News Flash: Christopher Hitchens Seeks Catholic Confessional
I was surprised to read Christopher Hitchens today, riding high on his moral horse as to the political, cultural and economic predations of Maximum Leader Robert Mugabe in his current Country of Residence, Zimbabwe. What people like Hitchens never seem to understand, is that morality is never just for other people, or leaders, or religious types. ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on June 10, 2008
Don't blame Michelle for Obama's flaws
There's no evidence, and Hitchens alludes to none, that Michelle made Barack join Wright's church and stick with it through all the vile spewings. Remember, she was from the area already and had her own church. he was the one looking to establish, in his words, ''street cred'' in the black community, as he looked to establish a political base ...
Posted to Fighting Words by roger32 on May 5, 2008