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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 07:39 AM

    @other Shooter

    Just because these events happened within close proximity does not mean that the latter was caused by the former.

    Good point. The transition team may have decided, just for shits and grins, to pull a complete 180° from the Stephanopoulos interview to yesterday. Just because, what the fuck, nothing much else going on this week.

    I'm glad you pointed that out, because otherwise you'd have missed one of your last chances to pull out this classic:

    let’s not turn this whole thing into a circular firing squad before the man even takes office.

    —Paul Daniel Ash Read Paul Daniel Ash's other letters

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