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If you're wondering what the heck happened to Barack Obama this week, it's simple: Hillary Clinton got inside his OODA loop.
While they're all off looking that up, the rest of you can have an open thread.
...and a Flogging Molly song. Because God knows we didn't get much in the way of real Irish music this bloody weekend...
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Can you imagine the comedy that would have ensued if a question like "Compare and contrast Van Crefeld's concept of 4GW with the trinitartian ideas of Clausewitz" were to have been asked at either of the debates early on? Just the thought warms the military historian part of my heart.
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In the hours following Saturday afternoon's collapse of a crane atop an under-construction highrise on the Upper East Side, during the notification of family members of dead and injured workers and in the early phases of rescue work amid the rubble of several damaged and destroyed buildings, New York's little-known but imminently new Governor, visiting the site, demonstrated that he is not versed in the art of euphemism:
"It's a horrible situation, very gory. There's blood in the street," said Lt. Gov. David Paterson, who takes over as governor for disgraced Eliot Spitzer on Monday.
soli Deo gloria
But somehow I doubt that's the case. I will give this though. Her advert and success with it has rattled his cage.
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