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Thursday, September 4, 2008 12:00 AM

The GOP's cheerful viciousness

Yet again, the GOP launches brutal personality and cultural attacks on the Democratic candidate. Yet again, Democrats seem determined to allow it to do so.

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  • Thursday, September 4, 2008 05:12 PM

    the killer quote

    From Palin:

    In small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.

    We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

    Trust me, you'll be seeing this over and over again this fall in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, W. Virginia, Virginia. Obama professes to care for the "poor people" while looking down his nose at them and, by the way, totally misunderstanding them.

    What a person says when he thinks no one is listening is a true indication of his heart, and Obama's speech in San Francisco shows him to be the condescending hypocrite he is. Anything he says afterward is a lie.

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