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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.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:34 PM

    @ ehillesum . . .

    So, for example, many of the homeless are on the streets because liberals thought it wrong to keep the mentally ill in live-in psychiatric facilities.

    BZZZZZ. Wrong answer. The correct answer "because the great hero of modern conservativism, Pres. Reagan, cut funding."

    And I'll take empathy and all the unsupported conservative "boogeymen" it creates in the deluded mind of the "war is good" social darwinist faux Christian conservative crowd any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

    Why do you hate Jesus' message, life's work, and sacrifice. Prince of Peace ring a bell.

    Empathy as vice. Classic conservative delusion.

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