[lbo-talk] Bush lives

[Itamar Turner-Trauring (aka Shtull-Trauring)]

On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 10:28 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> POLITICO Breaking News:
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> 
> President Barack Obama will deliver Tuesday's address on Afghanistan  
> policy from the United States Military Academy at West Point, the  
> White House said. The setting allows the commander-in-chief to talk  
> directly to future officers as he announces a troop buildup in the  
> eight-year war.

It's a Guns and Margarine policy: real guns, fake butter. Or maybe, "I
can't believe it's not change."


>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine --

        In 1869, Emperor Louis Napoleon III of France offered a prize to

        anyone who could make a satisfactory substitute for butter,

        suitable for use by the armed forces and the lower classes.[3]

        French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés invented a substance he

        called oleomargarine, the name of which became shortened to the

        trade name "margarine".