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Yup, rallying the base
As much as the know-nothing media talked about divided Democrats, Obama felt no need to use his VP pick to rally the base and unite his party. Biden was picked precisely because Obama felt he was the best pick for the ticket, not because he needed to mollify one group or another. Now we see ...
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Wow...what a nitwit!
Brilliant at Breakfast — ... , thinks creationism should be taught as science, and who wants to be a few brain cells away from the presidency; that this corrupt shtik dreck was some sort of Hillary-Equivalent, even though she, in a Phil Gramm moment last March, ...

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