[lbo-talk] peaceniks silent as Obama assembles team of hawks

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Sat Nov 29 19:32:36 PST 2008


On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:01:58 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> > I got to ask an aunt-in-law, a
> > prototypical Volvo-driving, Harvard-teaching liberal Democrat, how
> > to handle this. Her answer: "He's just saying it for the
> > election."

Oh, *that* was the "she" in question. Sorry, missed this message.

And fair enough. They don't just have one canonical response. They have have, what, three?

1) Would you prefer Bush? 2) He only said that to get elected. 3) Hey, give him a *chance* already.

There may be a few more. Contributions solicited.

Does anybody else know and love the Myles Na gCopaleen "Catechism of cliche?"

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Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org



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