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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 03:54 PM

    Unintentional humor, by Glenn

    ...increasingly quite ugly, even by the standards of GOP campaigning tactics...

    Instantly I was laughing, trying to figure the correct analog.

    I.e., increasingly quite harmful, even by the standards of drive-by shootings...

    ...increasingly quite painful, even by the standards of Chilean torturers...

    ...increasingly quite bad smelling, even by the standards of giant stacks of rotting corpses...

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