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Thu 09 Sep 2008Deflecting attention from war profiteering is name of game
THE REPUBLICANS, writes GARRISON KEILLOR, are meeting down the hill from my house, helicopters are pounding the air, and there are more suits on the streets and big black SUVs and a brownish cloud venting from the hockey arena where the convention is being held.
A large moment for little old St Paul, more accustomed to visitations by conventions of morticians and foundation garment salesmen, and so we are thrilled. It makes no difference that the city is Democratic. What matters is that, for a few days, TV will show a few pictures of the big bend in the Mississippi, the limestone bluffs, the capitol and cathedral, and a tree-shaded avenue or two, and some of the world will know that we exist.
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