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Re Slackie Onassis: Bingo. The Kos constituency is a double-edged sword. It does have some practical value: getting people out to vote for Democratic candidates. But the demographics reinforce the right-wing caricature of Democrats as an upper-class group, with the attitudes of an Eliot Spitzer. It's one thing to have the big dogs rake it in from investment bankers ... something else to have to listen to the moneymen rant on and on. And erupt when they don't get their way, as they have done ever since the nanny days and nursery school.
Re whether or not to attack northwest Pakistan:
9/11 commission co-chair Lee Hamilton started this discussion with a tactful statement early in July. Later statements became less and less tactful. Then we got to Obama. End of discussion.
A non-nuclear air strike against Al Qaeda in Pakistan could solve a great many problems, as the initial carpet bombing did in Afghanistan. But yakking this up is rock-bottom stupid.
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