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• Tuesday, January 13, 2009 08:09 AM

  Huh?

  Glen,

  I think that we need to avoid applying "political pressure" just for appearance sake. He said that "...we are going to close Guantanomo." He was unequivacal about it and offered some rather pragmatic insight into the difficulties in unraveling this particular Bush mess. You run the risk of being Hannity's evil twin by exagerating and conflating Obama 's words at every percieved slight. For example, by pointing out that Bush has said similar things, you conflate obama's intentions with Bush's. Another example was when Obama responded to the "advice" of Dick (the) Cheney:

  "Before you start to implement your campaign rhetoric you need to sit down and find out precisely what it is we did and how we did it. Because it is going to be vital to keeping the nation safe and secure in the years ahead and it would be a tragedy if they threw over those policies simply because they’ve campaigned against them."

  Obama's response:

  "I think that was pretty good advice, which is I should know what’s going on before we make judgments and that we shouldn’t be making judgments on the basis of incomplete information or campaign rhetoric,"

  He has been criticized for apparently agreeing with Cheney when in fact the context and tone of his reply was to imply that Bush et al did not "...know what’s going on before we [they] make judgments ".

  —intheevent Read intheevent's other letters
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