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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.
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Thursday, September 4, 2008 08:13 AM

    Fingers Crossed

    I thought that they really overstretched themselves, between the odd attacks on 'community organizers' amongst other things, as well as the repeated, already old invocations of 9/11 that came off as heavyhanded.

    Still...the media seems to already be characterizing it as a home-run (indeed, Associated Press seemed to already have their reaction piece to Palin's speech ready before the speech even went out, much like they did with Obama's speech), which may be the tipping point.

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