Cogitating Peter (CP) is here caught in the act of celebrating the new martial spirit of President Obama. The factor that will win 2012 for him against the ill positioned Republican Party. CP attempts to cloak his partisan glee at a victory secured well in advance of the campaign itself. Is it a bit too soon to claim victory? Can one even speculate, amid the din of victory cries, that the martial spirit and its corollary the spirit of vengeance, is the mortal enemy of civic republican virtue, the sine qua non of the modern constitutional secular state? Or are such questions unappealing in the celebrations accompanying the death of The Great Satan, Osama bin Laden? CP is content, at this point, to count his chickens.
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