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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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  • Wednesday, January 14, 2009 05:16 AM

    @ LondonLad, brush up on your English grammar first. "It was I" is grammatatically correct

    and you have to be careful or you'll soon spoil the whole impression of languid omniscience by writing "It was me and him". As a Biddy, the soubriquet given to me by a group of English men with surnames sich as Pigot (final "t" silent), I can recognise rhe attempts at over-achievement more readily than most.

    The topics of Guantanamo, torture and the current diabolical destruction of Gaza got lost on this thread in a welter of witless banter between you and Derbig Mooser. Derbig is always on parade as wise-cracking Jew whose wife can't type because it might spoil the apex of the nail-technician's art, although he was engaging in very bad badinage with GBT the other day. He then disappeared from the thread after Klytus and I drew attention to the obvious flirtation. I never noticed you at all, London Lad, until you seemed to have developed an obsession about Barack Obama's birth certificate.

    The purpose of Glenn Greenwald's blog is to question the fraying of America's purported ideals and to contest the prevailing political support for what looks very like an attempt at wiping out a Palestinian beach-head-cum-ghetto on the part of the Israeli army with uncritical propping by the USA. Maybe you hadn't noticed.

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