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...this girl I had always thought of as an intelligent, rational being was secretly a sub-literate moron. All those times we‘d innocently joked about Bristol and Levi, she’d been harboring perverted desires to do things like watch FOX News and vote for McCain. “At least tell me you still think Sarah Palin is Satan,” I pleaded. She shook her head and muttered something about the liberal media distorting things, but I couldn‘t quite make it out over the sound of our friendship crashing...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...sake of old times, I decided to try walking a mile in her shoes. The results were sobering. If you enjoy being yelled at, try sitting down next to a stranger in the dining hall and telling him you’re thinking of voting for McCain. Whenever I attempted this experiment, I was excoriated, stared at incredulously, or even slapped in the face. One time a group of people got together and tried to perform an exorcism...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...closet. It’s dark, and there are never enough hangers. But Harvard’s current culture of implied assent means she will never get to discuss her opinions with anyone. She will never be able to introduce her candidate to her friends. She can wear McCain gear to class, but she will have to pretend it’s ironic. And when she manages to come out, no one will hug her and whisper over the Elton John music, “It’s okay…I’m a moderate...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

...pieces, and the Palestinians are now saying that they might as well go home and wait for Israeli elections to finish and for a new prime minister to take charge. By then, Bush will have packed his bags and left the White House, leaving the challenge to either President McCain or Obama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace Prospects Dim as Israeli Elections Loom | 10/26/2008 | See Source »

...terms of things that John McCain could do to get elected President: One is fire Palin. Two would be to do much as he's doing: concentrate on one state, like Pennsylvania, and try to pull it out of the Democratic column, although I think that's very hard to do. Three would be to lay out an economic plan that sounded like a Democratic economic plan instead of a Republican economic plan, that ran to the left of Obama on economics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unsolicited Advice for John McCain | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

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