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Originally Posted by Cayne-Abel
As for Greenspan's "clarification," that has to be the most obvious case of back-peddling I've ever seen. The passage in his book was clear and unambiguous.
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Of course it's "obvious" that his "clarification" was nothing but frantic "back-pedaling;" what else could it be?
"Obviously," Alan Greenspan-- a well-known and highly-visible public figure of enormous political consequence whose resume includes over 30 years' experience working directly with US Presidents and other key political figures positioned up in the highest rungs of federal governmental power-- is a complete and utter imbecile. The sort of imbecile who, upon leaving the political arena and settling into private life, decides to write a candid memoir about his life in and out of politics for which he is advanced 85,000,000 (the second-largest advance ever for anon-fiction work) which takes care to mention in a "clear and unambiguous" manner that the nightmare scenarios and ugly accusations of the Bush Administrations' most rabidly zealous critics related to the invasion and occupation of Iraq are indeed true.
As he's doing this, it apparently never dawns on him that such anecdotes might spark a wee bit of controversy and media attention, thus causing him to be blindsided when it crops up and obligated to try and feebly revise.
Yeah, that makes a lot of "sense."