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Saturday, May 17, 2008 12:00 AM

Ignore the McCain vs. Obama polls

In the absence of other political news, pundits are obsessing over head-to-head matchups between McCain and Obama. It's much ado about very little.
By Walter Shapiro

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  • Friday, May 16, 2008 08:57 PM

    Though they hunger for substance

    .. they shall receive nothing but mindless drivel. So, the Gozilla vs Megalon of all horseraces is over, and the "news" networks still can't deliver substantive content. So much for the Invisible Hand working it's marketplace magic.

    Would it be too much to ask for a just a little substance? Is that too difficult a task? Is Obama the only person that's realized that after years of brain-numbing dissemination from the The Decider and his enabling minions that people, maybe, just maybe, can handle being treated as adults?

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