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MARK HALPERIN IN TIME: Maybe a horrendous act of violence will kill hundreds, even thousands, of Am?

By Glenn Reynolds

MARK HALPERIN IN TIME: Maybe a horrendous act of violence will kill hundreds, even thousands, of Americans and thereby brighten Obama’s political future. “No one wants the country to suffer another catastrophe. But when a struggling Bill Clinton was faced with the Oklahoma City bombing and a floundering George W. Bush was confronted by 9/11, they found their voices and a route to political revival.”

It’s like they had the narrative pre-written.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 10, 2011 (boomark / email).