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themanintheseersuckersuit
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by themanintheseersuckersuit » Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:39 am
Under the terms of a settlement still in negotiation, Sen. Clinton would quit the race and endorse Sen. Obama in exchange for a pledge that President Obama will grant her a charter to the U.S. island territory of Puerto Rico, whose Democrat primary Sen. Clinton won in convincing fashion over the weekend.
http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2993 
Suitguy is not bitter.
feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive
The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.