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Saturday, October 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Quote of the day: Palin on Obama

Governor accuses Senator of "palling around with terrorists."
Katharine Mieszkowski

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  • Monday, October 6, 2008 10:00 AM

    @coexist56

    "Wait, I thought "pointing backwards" was a bad thing.

    So the candidate who was scolding Biden on Thursday night for ‘looking backwards, and pointing fingers’ is now embracing this approach, and with a vengeance. Obama-Biden was only making a relatively near-term reference to the current administration. Palin-McCain (sic) wants to make events of the 60's relevant somehow. Good luck with that one, douche bags."

    The funniest thing about that botched line for me was this: she was lashing at him for looking to the past by quoting a familiar debate quote from 1980 prefaced by a quote from 1919. Both of which, I'm fairly certain, are in the past.

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