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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:00 AM

Criticisms, political pressure and Barack Obama

The president-elect's advisors respond to the firestorm created by Sunday's remarks on Guantanamo, illustrating the value of criticizing Obama when he deserves it.

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  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 01:43 PM

    JFK and The Unspeakable:

    Have any of you read this? Quite a potent examination of the situation that JFK faced when he came into office. It describes the transition he went through, from war supporter, to peace maker. It also describes the anger of the Military Industrial Complex, and how this lead to the conspiracy which resulted in his assassination. Has anyone forgotten that there are a lot of those cold warriors and conspirators still left in the establishment, and that they control from behind the scenes? Arlen Specter came up with the magic-bullet theory, facilitating the lone assassin theory of the Warren Commission. He is still in there, helping to massage the message to the public.

    Obama is fighting against strong enemies. If he rocks the boat too much he will find himself eliminated. No wonder he is having to soften his tone. It really is like David vs. Goliath, but Goliath has the upper hand.

    PS Bush was completely responsible for 911. Is this not obvious, given the great extent to which information is being covered up?. Where there appears to be a cover-up, it is usually because there is something being covered up.

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