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    What cooled things off was the fact that Petraeus's tour coincided with the establishment of a date certain for US…
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    • Interesting theory.  I was wondering why Obama would put a military guy in at CIA.
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    • "We've almost always been in worse hands." Good point.  Obama-Clinton-Biden-Gates-Mullen-Panetta-Patraeus.  I think you have to go back to FDR-Marshall et…
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    • They wanted to get these crummy loans off their books, so they 1) bundled them with some other stuff into…
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    • I go back to the debate about withdrawing from Iraq circa 2006.  The people who insisted that we stay until…
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    • The state primary elections are scheduled for June 12.  The runoffs are June 26.  Why don't they just hold the…
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    • I don't know who "we" is supposed to be, but your final paragraph makes it clear that your first three…
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    • Dan Choi thinks that only his brave dissent forced an unwilling Barack Obama to...do what he'd been saying he would…
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    • No matter what he writes about, the same people have the same reaction. So, why not?
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    • Markos?  Really? He's taking hits from both sides.  I about wet myself once reading a commenter at another blog complain…
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    • The same thing happened during the Spanish Civil War.  The socialists and the anarchists, who'd long been at each others'…
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    • "The British 5?" Do you mean "MI5?" That's a good spy show.
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    • Progressives are the base, or at least a large part of it. But, then, Obama has high levels of approval…
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    • While describing left-wing bloggers as "the downtrodden" doesn't lack perspective at all.
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    • "Lamont won the primary back in '06.  Remember that?  And we all know what happened." The popular, long-serving Senator was…
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    • In the words of Henry Kissinger: "Is zere any vay zey can boze lose?"
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    • Because the New Deal era represented an unheard of peak for leftist politics in this country, and there was nowhere…
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    • "Have they ever been asked?" Good question. "Labor is one of the biggest sources of cash for Democrats" Alrighty then.…
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    • The rules apply to unions and corporations alike.
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    • No. Going after Juan Cole makes me think that they weren't primarily interested in popular figures who might influence the…
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