TIL Australians say the word car just like we do up here in Boston , Ma . It ' s pronounced cah . <| sep |> I believe it is . Can I be Batman ? <| sep |> The problem is , that was his thrust . That was the big memorable thing he went with . A wall and xenophobia . The literal opening note of his campaign . I ' m not down in any way with someone who would pull a racist stunt like that for publicity , and it in fact makes it worse . It ' s exploitative instead of simply bigoted . <| sep |> If I recall correctly , Clinton warned Dubya emphatically that OBL was a major threat , that they knew he was planning on a major terror attack on US soil and that Afghanistan , the Taliban , and al Qaeda were of utmost intelligence importance in the Middle East . And once in office , Dubya promptly ignored all that , and shifted American intelligence towards Iraq instead , and ignored what reports came from the , now much depleted , intelligence assets still focusing on OBL .