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Monday, October 6, 2008 12:00 AM

John McCain's unprecedentedly ugly speech today

The increasingly petty and ugly attacks on Barack Obama by a desperate, dying movement are a microcosm of the last eight years.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Monday, October 6, 2008 01:39 PM

    Roland Barthes is rolling over in his grave...

    as it becomes more and more obvious that those who seem to have absorbed his message the most, use it to such hideous ends. I wonder when the McCain Campaign will get desperate enough to send out fliers of Obama dressed as a Muslim with a Palestinian flag in the background, ala a reverse of Barthes' Algerian soldier. Oh crap! I just outed myself as a member of the crypto-commie, educated elite! Don't tell anyone...

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