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  • Saturday, July 4, 2009 11:49 AM

    Nervous body language

    During the press conference she certainly didn't look to me like someone so bursting with confidence and ambition that she was ready to make a bold move toward being elected president. She looked and sounded like a scared little girl who'd been told to get out of Dodge by somebody with big guns, and was packing up her toys in frantic haste.

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