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John McCain is running for sissy in chief

In his new book, John Strausbaugh claims everyone in America has been "sissified," including the 2008 presidential contenders.
By Vincent Rossmeier

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  • Wednesday, February 13, 2008 08:21 PM

    Hope the book's better than the interview.

    The concept of America as a nation of wimps merits exploration, but Strasbaugh blows the interview by getting too taken with his own outrageousness. Kind of abandons a neat premise in favor of currying cheap, Coulter-like gasps from the audience. The intellectual consistency just ain't there.

    But we are a nation of snivelling twerps and knee-jerk cowards. I guess that was George W Bush's most spot-on assessment of the national character.

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