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McCain’s November Surprise Is a Dud
Comments from Left Field — ... to throw against the wall. It’s a pretty pathetic attempt, though. It’s hard to see how this has any relevance to Obama’s candidacy. Zeituni Onyango and Obama are not particularly close; he did not know about her immigration status and there is no rational argument to be made that he should have known; and now that he does know, he has instructed his staff to refund her the money she gave his campaign. In short, who cares? … People often vote for very irrational ...

Auntie American
Shakesville — What Steve said. My first question when I heard this was: "Was she even denied asylum for anything resembling an appropriate reason, or, like many female asylum-seekers, was she denied asylum because little things like rape, genital mutilation, and forced marriage are (generally) considered a state of womanhood so normal that they don't qualify women for sanctuary from that 'normalcy'?" And my second: "Who in the Bush administration acted unethically, and quite possibly criminally, to make this information public, anyway?"