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Tuesday, January 1, 2008 12:00 AM

Barack Obama's nouvelle vague

We know he's a "hope monger," but the rest of Obama's unconventional message is elusive.
By Walter Shapiro

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  • Tuesday, January 1, 2008 03:41 PM

    Huh? Treatment is bad?

    [quote]I heard him say yesterday to put drug offenders in treatment. I take it he meant, adjudicate them and treat them as lesser beings but don't necessarily put them in prison.[/quote]

    How did you possibly read that he meant "treat them like lesser beings"? Unless you have some distaste from him to begin with that is clouding the statement, I can't figure it out.

    Alot of the negatives I am hearing from people about him have the same kind of slant to it, so I am not surprised.

    —darknesse Read darknesse's other letters

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