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:: Thursday, January 25, 2007 ::
Spin Bulletin: Willietalk Award of the Week
Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) expressed “extreme sadness” to learn that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) will not be joining him and so many others in the Senate’s Democratic Wannabe President Club.
:: James Baar 1/25/2007 10:40:00 AM [+] ::
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You Can’t Figure Out the Way Forward until You Read the Triptik
To even attempt to understand the political brouhaha over the Iraq War, you need to understand the meaning of the following essential spinspeak soundbites:
The way forward = one way or another we are going forward just as today usually follows tomorrow: the phrase reassures, but really says nothing until you look at the Triptik to be used.
(The sitting Republican President’s Triptik calls for sending in another 20,000 plus troops who may get us forward; the some dozen wannabe sitting Democratic Presidents’ Triptiks all say the way forward involves only reverse gear [see redeployment]. No other Triptiks are on the table.)
surge = Pentagonspeak for more troops but not for long maybe.
escalation = scarespeak for here comes the Big One.
most Americans, many Republicans = political hypertalk for at least a majority of one.
redeployment = peaceniktalk for retreat “over the horizon” to Okinawa, maybe some advance readiness base near Chicago or Louisville.
:: James Baar 1/25/2007 10:31:00 AM [+] ::
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