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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 08:09 AM

    If you are ten years old...

    ...you believe that Obama read some blogs and suddenly changed his mind. How dumb can you get? At the most -- the very most -- he released his policy earlier than intended. To believe he fashioned a policy after a few days/weeks of blog outcry is nuts, and even an insult to the man. What next...blogs will demand big cars will be banned and he'll go for that, too?

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