As he’s often done during his tenure as chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele last week put the phone to his ear to save his embattled rear. On Friday, Steele arranged a raft of conference calls to explain his remarks that Afghanistan was a war of President Obama’s “choosing,” and tried to offer members now very used to his gaffe-prone tendencies context for the remarks.
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