I got your focus group right here

MANIFESTO

How pitiful is it that GI George has been reduced to peddling his non-plan for Iraq before a few dozen septuagenarian American Legionnaires in Fairfax, VA?

This Nixonian type of insularity is reminiscent—in a perverse sort of way— of Feckless Leader's contention in 2003 that the hundreds of thousands of people protesting the imminent invasion of Iraq were nothing but a "focus group." I think we've seen who, exactly, has gotten desperate in his choice of a friendly audience.