When logic fails, get back to a fight. Like a pep rally for a high-school football game, where even the ain’t-got-a-chance team believes it’s gonna win, Obama is carrying his emotional – forget logical – last stand to the “people.” And television dutifully carries it, rah, rah. For a fight, you gotta have an enemy.... »
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