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Friday, August 22, 2008 12:00 AM

How Obama can be the un-Kerry in Denver

Three veteran Democrats game out the Democratic and Republican conventions. Beware of PUMAs!
By Thomas Schaller

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  • Friday, August 22, 2008 08:54 AM

    Ravings From the I-Don't-Have-A-Life Crowd

    The profane sniping & caterwauling in these letters are perfect companions to the decrepit stench embodied by the interviews of three inside-the-entrenched-system cave dwellers. If this is the reality of our electoral discourse, we deserve whatever gets squeezed out, irrespective of party affiliation. The political class of party pols and media-abetted corporatists would revel in this idiocy.

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