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On his big night, Jindal falls flat

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  • Tuesday, February 24, 2009 08:25 PM

    oh, yeah...

    and is it just me, or is the Republican practice of praising Obama for being black starting to get really, really old?

    —Marianna Trench Read Marianna Trench's other letters

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