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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 08:57 AM

    But, but, but, Glen . . .

    this is no way to get invited into/onto the inner circle of super crapspactacular congressional/presidential cocktail weenie parties, dontchya know.

    I'm sure I'll be accused of being a GG psychophant or sockpuppet, but YOU ARE THE MAN. Keep up the good work, keep edumacating the masses, and maybe, just maybe, my over the top cynicism will be proven wrong and we just might work ourselves out of some of the serious messes fear, lemming-like inside the beltway thought, and propoganda have given rise to.

    There is only one golden rule of politics from the perspective of the masses: constant political pressure may yield accountability, but no pressure is certain to yield none.

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