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• Tuesday, January 6, 2009 02:22 PM

  @Arne Langsetmo ...

  Thanks for the correction.

  However, I don't think it answers the contention that the OLC-designates "outrage" is highly selective, and that this selectivity mirrors the tribal affiliations of the individual concerned.

  This is completely in keeping with Glenn's earlier points about Orwell, Tribalism, and etc ...

  It may be tolerable in a young person, or someone with minimal exposure to political realities, but in the person who is allegedly going to "Say 'No' to the President" it is unforgivable. It thoroughly disqualifies her for the job, marking her as little (if any) more than another partisan propagandist for her boss and his political allies. While she may well be a far more convincing propagandist, I would argue that this makes her more dangerous, not less.

  If anyone who welcomes this appointment can show me some expression of similar outrage over the murderous conduct of federal agencies at Waco (or Bosnia, or the cruise missile attack on a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory, or any other Clintonite crimes) then I will gladly credit her for it and retract my objection. Until then, it stands.

  And what about Glenn? Is he immune to the tribalist blind spot? Why did he leave it to me to make this elementary observation?

  How desperate are we to believe that Obama really is a good guy, even after he has shown time and time again that he's just one more in a long line of interchangable parts of a throughly corrupted and corrupting political machine?

  —ScuzzaMan Read ScuzzaMan's other letters
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