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So long as he mixed enough of the gooey I-only-want-to-see-America-live-up-to-its-ideals stuff in to carry the preferred storyline, the less palatable stuff can be excised fairly easily.

LATER, AT THE BUS STOP, a girl plopped down next to me on the bench and continued a very loud cell phone conversation.

"My bus is late because traffic is insane," she said. "Some Middle Eastern big shot is here trying to make it like we're the terrorists and his religious government that does all these crazy bad things to people is perfect. I don't know, I got the story second-hand on a barroom stool. I'm pretty buzzed."

That's about as crude and uneducated a political assessment as one can get. And yet this drunk, politically oblivious girl probably managed to get a lot closer to the truth than the paid observers yesterday afternoon at the Kennedy School of Government.

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