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  • Tuesday, September 16, 2008 06:52 AM

    Our own First Intern, ooops, make that First Dudess

    Were you folks this upset when we lucky Americans were entitled to a fabulous deal called Two for the Price of One during the Clinton years?

    Were you monitoring HRC as she got drifted in and out of the Oval Office handling emails and other documents and attempting to write policy changes that involved restructuring the economy-----all the while getting, or so she thought, on the job training for her own jab at the job.

    Where was the outrage then?

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