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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 04:05 PM

    "Watch as he desperately pretends he hasn't sacrificed every principle he ever had (if he had any) to get to this point."

    You mean Obama, right?

    I didn't know Jeremiah Wright was a raving, racist lunatic. (Memo: Disinvited Wright to his campaign kickoff months earlier because "you know you can get kinda rough at times.")

    I cannot disown Jeremiah Wright any more than I can disown my white grandmother. (Memo: Wright thrown off the train a few weeks later.)

    I'll stick to public financing for my campaign. (Memo: hell, let's just roll in the dough and forget my "promise.")

    I'm against changing the FISA law. (Memo: voted for the new FISA law.)

    The surge is a failure. (Memo: Tells O'Reilly tonight that the surge has succeeded.)

    Said we should end the embargo of Cuba because it was a failure. (Memo: Speaking to a Cuban-American audience in Miami, said we should keep the embargo "because it is an important inducement for change.")

    Said "no" on a questionnaire that asked if we should crack down on business that hire illegal immigrants. (Memo: In January debate said, "We do have to crack down on those employers that are taking advantage of the situation."

    Obama's an empty suit, a calculating pol, a liar and a fraud.

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