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Old Aug 16, 2006 | 6:35 pm
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justageek
 
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Originally Posted by bdschobel
What he said in July makes perfect sense -- and was expressed eloquently, too. What he did in August is totally insane and contradicts what he said the month before. Strange!
The conspiracy theorists will say that the political situation for his bosses deterioriated between July and August, including the Lieberman loss in CT, which necessitated the hysteria on 8/10 to "rally the troops." I'll let everyone make up their own mind on that validity of that argument, but it's definitely interesting how he "flip-flopped" on this issue.
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