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POLITICAL YANG YANG

Bush couldn't meet with Cindy Sheehan because his political strategy requires him to demonize the enemy. His political critics are the enemy. Had he met with her, he would have recognized her humanity.

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Look at the letters in any newspaper. Maybe half support Sheehan. Of the half or so that oppose her request to have the Iraq mission explained (!), only a few will attempt to answer her question: The only defense of the war is that we are "freeing Iraq" [to become an Islamic Republic where women will have no rights]. Most of the letters dehumanize Sheehan, either demonizing her directly because she criticizes the president, or calling her a "puppet" of the "demon left" for allowing herself to be "used" in their (our) campaign to hold the president accountable for his actions. (They don't call it "holding the president accountable.")

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Had Bush met with Sheehan he would have had nothing to say, because the truth is the other enemy of his political strategy.

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Did you hear the one about the Navy wife who wanted her health insurance to pay for the abortion of her fetus because the baby would have born without a brain or a skull? And how a law named after an adulterer named Henry Hyde prevents the military from paying for abortions except when the mother's life is in danger and not even when the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest?

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If you take Bush as emblematic, apparently his Judeo-Christian supporters believe that "bearing false witness against thy neighbor" is an instruction, not a prohibition.

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Apparently the other so-called commandments are strictly optional too, but the 10 Commandments crowd wants to shove them down everybody's throats, just so they can gloat about how they have the power to do it as they break most of them.

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"Let's make a graven image of the prohibition against graven images!"

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(I extrapolated the last quote from a letter on another blog -- I think it was Eric Alterman's -- from an Orthodox Jew who asked whether Antonin Scalia kept the Sabbath Day Holy and who blasted the "10 Commandments" crowd as idolaters of graven images.)

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Now we're going to hear from Turtletop correspondent Nattie Bobo (a/k/a the 2 and a half year old):

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