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Obama's early stumbles

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  • Thursday, January 15, 2009 04:56 PM

    @ wychwood

    You're welcome!

    Regarding sailfree, his tactic of "That's religion! That's religion!" has been used by Coulter and others.

    I just keep reminding myself, "He voted for Bush. Twice."

    Nuff said.

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