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To: dsutah
Oh wow, this article is so Shakespearean! Remember the "Julius Caesar" speech by Mark Anthony: "friends, Romans, countrymen"! ... I think the next line was: "I came not to praise Caesar but to bury him", then he proceeded to do exactly that, to praise him, and turned the sentiment of the Roman people against Brutus!

Et tu Brutus! :~)

Yes, I had eerily similar feeling reading it. The article was simultaneously fawning to Obama in tone and dripping with poison of deep irony in substance.

And let's not forget another classic line from the same play, for we seem to be fast approaching it:

Something that's currently better known as Wag the Dog strategy, courtesy of [recently reformed and converted to conservative thinking] David Mamet.

80 posted on 08/27/2013 2:28:27 PM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: CutePuppy

Oh yeah, you’re right; I’d forgotten that line came from that play! That “wag the dog” thing that Bill Clinton was famous for, oh yeah! (smile) Ol’ Shakespeare would’ve had a ball with this pres. and his government now, would he?


94 posted on 08/30/2013 6:17:56 PM PDT by dsutah
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To: CutePuppy

Oh yeah, you’re right; I’d forgotten that line came from that play! That “wag the dog” thing that Bill Clinton was famous for, oh yeah! (smile) Ol’ Shakespeare would’ve had a ball with this pres. and his government now, would he?


95 posted on 08/30/2013 6:18:17 PM PDT by dsutah
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