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McCain chooses sacrificial lamb for VP
By Libby Spencer (My first raw thoughts, that I pounded out in ten minutes this morning, while I process the incredible speech Obama gave last night and McCain's hijacking of the news cycle this morning.) We should be talking about Obama's speech but McCain deployed the GOP weapon of mass ...
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a whiter shade of palin
skippy the bush kangaroo — the reaction has some reactions to mcmuffin's veep pick: mccain picks alaska's gov. sarah palin mccain's own dan quayle mccain chooses sacrificial lamb for vp mccain vp confusion: staff had canadian actress sarah polley in dayton hotel for htree days

The “Real” Sarah Palin
The Moderate Voice — ... and the recent Republican Congress, able to invigorate a McCain administration and to govern beyond it.” But of course, as you all know, Krazy Kristol occupies a world that is not our own, a world where this sort of BS — seriously, this is what passes for political analysis in Kristol’s world — is taken seriously. ********** For refutations of the Krazy Kristolian view, and criticisms of the Palin pick, see here, here, and here. (Cross-posted from The Reaction.) ...

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