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I am pleased that the News of the World is in trouble over phone-tapping.I am concerned of the repercussions that the ousting of Cynthia McKinney as the Democratic candidate in Georgia will have for the party. As Jacob Weisberg says in Slate:
This is a signal event that will have a huge and lasting negative impact on the Democratic Party. The result suggests that instead of capitalizing on the massive failures of the Bush administration, Democrats are poised to re-enact a version of the Vietnam-era drama that helped them lose five out six presidential elections between 1968 and the end of the Cold War.
Btw, I can't agree with Weisberg when he says (of political extreme Democrats): "Many of them appear not to take the wider, global battle against Islamic fanaticism seriously. They see Iraq purely as a symptom of a cynical and politicized right-wing response to Sept. 11, as opposed to a tragic misstep in a bigger conflict"
I'll accept the first sentence, with reservations. But the second is unrelated to the first. There's a very good case to be made that Iraq was a cynical and politicised right-wing response to the 11th of September tragedy, rather than a tragic misstep. Believing that has no bearing on your view on the war against terror.
Finally I'm pleased that the drought conditions are leading to a 'carpet of toxi blug-green algae' in London's canals. That'll teach people to believe the marketing hype about 'luxury' or even 'landmark' apartments. Doesn't look so much like Venice now, does it?
Or maybe it does.
posted by Matthew @ 8/10/2006 08:28:00 AM
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