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Monday, October 6, 2008 12:00 AM

John McCain's unprecedentedly ugly speech today

The increasingly petty and ugly attacks on Barack Obama by a desperate, dying movement are a microcosm of the last eight years.

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  • Monday, October 6, 2008 02:57 PM

    Health insurance covers mental health care now, right?

    I believe that the 28 - oops, no, 26 - oops, now it's 24 - percent of the American public who continue to support Dubya are mentally ill. How else to explain their blind, positively slavish, certainly unthinking dedication to the man who has succeeded in bringing America to its knees?

    And John McCain has willingly embraced the crazies, the fanatics, and the greedy who enabled him. Today's rant makes manifest McCain's volatility, self-absorption and willingness to "destroy the village in order to save it."

    If Obama gets under his skin at tomorrow night's debate, I can imagine McCain succumbing to apoplexy. If you're going to the debate, don't sit in the front few rows - you're gonna get sprayed by McCain's spittle as he foams at the mouth.

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