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I'm not sure Rachel's housetrained him that much, he's still a creature of the right and kos himself would admit that it's not a wise idea to take advice from those who wish you harm.

So you gotta ask yourself what's he trying to achieve and my first (second and third) thought is that he's sowing mischief. Irrespective of whether Obama does or does not pick someone from the "left", he has put the idea in play which allows him to tweak the administrations tail about it. And frankly it's too late, cos the only thing the liberals wanted was Lieberman's head on a plate.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 05:00:57 PM EST
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I think it's pretty simple. Buchanan is an anti-interventionist conservative, and was totally against Bush on Iraq. A check on the DLC types is actually in his interest.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 05:07:42 PM EST
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I find the comment extremely forthright in general terms as well. As Buchanan well knows, the right-wing base - and not the center - helped to perpetuate the "Reagan revolution" by drastically shifting the Overton window. If the Democrats are going to really change things, they need to enable the Left (such as it is in the US) to shift it back.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Thu Nov 20th, 2008 at 03:11:15 AM EST
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