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I well remember the grief George W. Bush got if he mispronounced a word, such as “nuclear.” Slate magazine had a column about Bushisms that ran well after Bush left office. Although Obama has released more than a reasonable number of gaffes and verbal bombs, predictably he has not received the same degree of scorn from the enraptured press. Here is the latest: Obama and the “corpseman.”
First the crotchbomber, now this. The al Qaeda version of this. If one of them succeeds in blowing herself up, Homeland Security will respond by subjecting all women larger than 32A to special searches.
The United States as a conservative, center-right country, according to yet another poll.
The “certainty” of another terrorist attack on the U.S. within three to six months.
“The facts of life are conservative.” - Margaret Thatcher
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