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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:00 AM

Barack Obama, jihadist?

Mitt Romney on the terrorists and the Democrats.
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  • Tuesday, October 23, 2007 03:29 PM

    Anonymous, has it come to this?

    Are the Democrats so miserably cowed by Republican bullying that they will choose candidates based on whether or not Republicans can make fun of their names? Look, they'll do that no matter whom the Democrats nominate. Take a couple of very Anglo-Saxon Christian names like Hillary Clinton and John F. Kerry. "Hitlery." "John F'in Kerry." And on and on. There's no end to the infantile abuse these people can hurl, although admittedly a foreign name gives them extra ammunition with the knuckle-dragging nativist crowd. Remember some country music bimbo saying of Dukakis, "Ah cain't even say his nay-um!"?

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