[lbo-talk] what's different this time

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Doug:
> [an interesting and occasionally weird collection of points made by
> The Note today
> <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238>]
> 
> As Howard Fineman, Adam Nagourney, Rick Berke, Jeff Greenfield,
> Elizabeth Wilner, Ron Brownstein, Matt Cooper, Mike Abramowitz, and
> Ken Mehlman would say, "How is the situation President Bush faces
> tonight different than on all other nights since 9/11?":
> 
> He has never had to take "responsibility" for such death-infused
> tragedy before.

They scored a few good points, but then so what?  That reminds me of a
cartoon circulating in the Solidarnosc literature of 1980 - a Party
apparatchik faces an angry crowd of protesters and says "All right, I am
responsible for all that mess.  And what are you going to do about it?"

Wojtek