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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 09:34 PM

    POW/Candidate launches sub-surface to campaign missile

    The addle-brained old fighter pilot seems determined to fly his campaign straight into weaponry he himself launched. Isn't there anybody on his staff whose sole job is to prevent suicidal strategic blunders like relying on the venomous racism dripping from these scurrilous innuendoes? I hope not.

    I know that the Republicans love to portray Gov. Palin as coming from "outside the Beltway", but hasn't it dawned on them that ordinary folk might feel uncomfortable about voting for someone whose ideas so clearly come from outside the Milky Way?

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