American politics is a speckled minefield of sensitivies and nuances, a danger zone where gestures and language can exact a high political toll. It's a lesson learned by Trent Lott, George Allen, Jessie Jackson, and, of course, Hillary Clinton whose cheek-smacking of Sura Arafat got her into deep hummus.
Curious, then, that the proximity of Ahmadinejad's Holocaust Denial Conference, clumsily cloaked as a gathering of such impressive free-speech advocates as David Duke and George Thiel, to the release of...
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