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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Sam who wrote (194213)7/18/2012 9:51:49 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 543451
 
I NEVER agree with John Podhoretz. Or his father. Well, almost never, because I agree with him on this (see below).
I think I disagree with you and Podhoretz here, though it's terribly difficult to see precisely what he his arguing. Campaigns inevitably produce these kinds of moments in which candidates, tired or out of sorts or whatever, misstate a message that is completely clear from the context.

If they are now to be hammered for even the slightest misstatement, then we might as well give them a script from which they read, and we lose all spontaneity. All of it.

I think we cut them slack on these sorts of things. Both of them.
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