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• Sunday, November 30, 2008 10:22 AM

  @ RealityChallenged

  putative
  1. Commonly believed or deemed to be the case; accepted by supposition rather than as a result of proof.
  http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/putative
  

  There's nothing putative about Friedman's revisionism. You can try to make that assertion, but Glenn has repeatedly stapled little Tommy's butt to the floor. The existence of the Friedman Unit alone lays waste to any notion that Friedman is anything more than a windsock twisting in the breeze, however it currently blows.

  One could almost feel sorry for the intellectual box Friedman has built for himself; trying to appear as though he is moving with the current by twisting, massaging, and manipulating his previous positions. Your self-assignment as his apologist makes you appear as inept as little Tommy.

  Further, you would try to deflect the thread from Friedman's revisionism to the threadbare saw let bygones be bygones, or okay, what's done is done, now let's look forward, or let's find a good side to this 'situation'. Sorry. You lose. You are off topic, and you have been off topic, since you popped into the thread. You're making a clumsy effort at steering the topic. It's a common enough tactic of the neo-cons to be easily recognized. walter_map pegged you accurately enough at the beginning. Now, you're merely a play toy; one of those beach balls that gets bounced around at rock concerts.

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