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  • Sunday, August 17, 2008 01:43 PM

    Linda

    "I'm an old-fashioned, bleeding-heart, ultra-liberal, atheist, feminist, who has not served the GOP in any way since I learned to think and feel at the same time."

    Except by bequeathing me and mine a four decade legacy of GOP dominance, and the death of all progressivism.

    I believe you, of course. And believe me when I say being an old-fashioned liberal is no glory cry in the dismal days spent living in a country that has very little at all to do with "old fashioned" liberalism. I won't address your complaints against Obama, anybody is welcome to visit Hi44.com for a blessed insight into the lens these "truths" pass through and often originate from wholecloth.

    There is one thing you might be proud of; your candidate carried on the very old fashioned, and quite highly prized liberal tradition of losing the race. On my part I could not be more eager to part ways with those who came before me and failed miserably. It's time for America to have an Opposition party again.

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