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Friday, August 8, 2008 12:00 AM

Whew!

Bill Clinton will reportedly have a speaking role at the Denver convention. Can someone explain why that was ever in question?
Joan Walsh

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  • Thursday, August 7, 2008 08:52 PM

    Walsh, you have completely lost it

    Joan Walsh: "But watching the Clintons get smeared as racist, from my privileged white perch, I had the first inkling of what my black and Jewish friends might have felt like."

    Um, Joan? Are you high?

    Being called a nigger and being called a racist are not equivalent.

    But if you feel so "hurt" by being called racist, how the fuck do you think people feel being called sexist?

    —Xrandadu Hutman Read Xrandadu Hutman's other letters

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