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because I outsmarted myself.
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Ah yes, and Black Bert for a catblog:
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My husband was doing some work up in the attic when he came across this WWII vintage advertising card. I leave it to you to find any irony on this Independence Day:
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Added: By the way, I’d like to go on record as believing that the mere fact of being a war hero is not necessarily a qualification for the presidency just as the fact of not being such a hero is not a disqualification. I recommend that we all take a little time to read Paul Krugman’s column for the day, Rove’s Third Term. It begins like this:
Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn’t scream. Hillary Clinton didn’t say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didn’t impugn John McCain’s military service.
Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, titled his tell-all memoir “What Happened.” But a true account of modern American politics should be titled “What Didn’t Happen.” Again and again we’ve had media firestorms over supposedly revealing incidents that never actually took place.
I abhor this practice, call it Swiftboating if you will, and think it should be broadly condemned no matter which candidate it is used in support of. One of the things that appalled me so about the Democratic primary this year is that partisans within the party were not just willing but enthusiastic about just this kind of Rovian attack. As voters we should not tolerate it.
“Will Rovian tactics work this year?” Mr. Krugman asks. If you ask me, these tactics have already worked. See Melissa McEwan and Maureen McClusky, Destroying Hillary Clinton (and here for part two) in The Guardian.
A more relevant question might be “Will Rovian tactics continue to work this year?”
Mr. Krugman thinks the press is a little ashamed of themselves over their attacks on Clark. I sure hope so. I sure hope they’re a lot ashamed.
What was it George W. Bush said?
Fool me once … can’t get fooled again?????
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