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...campaign: rally his party, enlist all the ghosts of campaigns past and get them to play together. But if he was tactically shrewd to offer to meet with Bush, drop all the lawsuits and recount ballots across the whole state, not just in heavily Democratic counties, he couldn't resist taking the truth out for a spin. "What is at stake here is more important than who wins the presidency," he said, and talked about that special something we all cherish and pledge allegiance to. "That's what I'm focused on. Not the contest, but our democracy...
...numbers of absentee votes were controlled by Republicans. Republicans withdrew one lawsuit on Saturday after many of the counties voluntarily decided to reconsider the military ballots, but GOP lawyers turned up the heat later in the day by filing individual suits in at least five counties that continued to resist...
...class comedy bully, which is not the class clown. I came up with funny things that caught on - nicknames and anthropomorphic cartoons and such. I genuinely liked the people I was making fun of, I just couldn't resist making fun of them. I lacked the empathy chip. I thought I was just having a good time. Because a lot of the people I made fun of were good friends of mine. Sometimes I was their best friend. I'd just be like, "Come on, you're 12 years old and you have tits. That's funny...
...being pooped on. Now Richard Hatch, we had him on recently, and he was loving it, loving it, loving it, just the way you would think he would. But then the writers wrote one joke that cut to the quick a little too much and I couldn't resist saying it because I was so offended on some levels by "Survivor" and by his being and the being of all those people. It was to the effect of "Enjoy your 15 minutes because you're about to be swallowed by anonymity faster than my pink thing in a St. Bernard...
...dream, and then I realized I was awake the whole time," she said. The entire shape and design of the past 18 months have been for the campaigns to look presidential, as if by appearing so, they were so. Their confidence raised them all that money and helped them resist all that advice from Washington. And so Bush aides carefully leaked that Dick Cheney would be heading the transition effort and would be assisted by Colin Powell. Andrew Card, the deputy chief of staff under President Bush, would now be chief of staff. Several photo ops were staged with Bush...