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Thursday, November 27, 2008 12:00 AM

I'm grateful for Barack Obama

My sappy Thanksgiving post got more serious as I watched the Mumbai tragedy unfold.
Joan Walsh

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  • Wednesday, November 26, 2008 09:53 PM

    I know

    this has no use to your point, which in warm, kind spirited and laudable, but it would be nice to have a sitting president who isn't getting his Foster Brooks on right now. I know it wouldn't change much on the ground in mumbai it would just make me feel better.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/25/bush-drinking-again-downs_n_146453.html

    1/20 cannot come fast enough.

    —The Literary Thug Read The Literary Thug's other letters

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