On Sep 28, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Sep 28, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Shane Taylor quoted Samantha Power's
> squeeze:
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>> It is revealing, and entirely characteristic, that Obama admires
>> Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals, in which Goodwin describes
>> Lincoln's self-conscious decision to assemble a contentious,
>> bipartisan cabinet.
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> Didn't Michael Pollak post something about how this book is bullshit?
So is the word "bipartisan." I don't remember there being any Breckenridge supporters in Lincoln's Cabinet, and wasn't the most "contentious" part of the Cabinet--Stanton, Seward--Republican?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos