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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

"Without preconditions"

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I don't understand why Obama doesn't just decisively knock down this stupid Republican talking point that a party can enter negotiations with "preconditions." Setting preconditions for negotiations is a deliberate attempt to humiliate your negotiation partner. It is a way to win concessions without negotiating at all. Setting preconditions for a negotiation is disingenuous horseshit. It means that the party setting preconditions does not intend to enter the negotiation in good faith. Perhaps Obama could explain to the corporate media that "one thing John McCain doesn't understand is the definition of 'negotiate.'

I wonder how it would look if Obama agreed to another debate only on the precondition that McCain stop lying through his wooden teeth.

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