This is a tough spot, because the two candidates are arguing two separate lines — McCain is focusing on the surge, Obama on the larger question of Iraq. I know where I stand, but I’m not sure that a discussion like this, when it occurs in different languages, offers the public much. I’m just not sure that the public will be able to parse it.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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