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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

>From what I heard this morning, Obama is going to have his own "monsters".  
>Rahm Emmanuel as Chief of Staff?  He could almost make Rove look scrupulous. 
> 

Obama is taklking to the same flying monkeys from Goldman Sachs that Bush 
used.  David Brooks, another NYT columnist , said months ago that they   
(Goldman Sachs flying monkeys) were starting to control the Bush whiyte 
house, and if Obama was elected, they would actually 'own' the white house.  
Same crap--different names ......bobford


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--- On Wed, 11/5/08, paxamicus AT earthlink.net <paxamicus AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: paxamicus AT earthlink.net <paxamicus AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Homestead] What Krugman has to say about this election
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 9:45 AM
> "The monster years
> 
> Last night wasn’t just a victory for tolerance; it
> wasn’t just a  
> mandate for progressive change; it was also, I hope, the
> end of the  
> monster years.
> 
> What I mean by that is that for the past 14 years
> America’s political  
> life has been largely dominated by, well, monsters.
> Monsters like Tom  
> DeLay, who suggested that the shootings at Columbine
> happened because  
> schools teach students the theory of evolution. Monsters
> like Karl  
> Rove, who declared that liberals wanted to offer “therapy
> and  
> understanding” to terrorists. Monsters like Dick Cheney,
> who saw 9/11  
> as an opportunity to start torturing people.
> 
> And in our national discourse, we pretended that these
> monsters were  
> reasonable, respectable people. To point out that the
> monsters were,  
> in fact, monsters, was “shrill.”
> 
> Four years ago it seemed as if the monsters would dominate
> American  
> politics for a long time to come. But for now, at least,
> they’ve been  
> banished to the wilderness."
> 
> 
>  From this morning's NYT. I'm not going to bother
> to link it.
> 
> 
> 
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