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Perhaps that’s why I don’t grasp the sense of shock that hit our campus last Tuesday, or the letdown on Wednesday, when Kerry graciously accepted the inevitable. As the Democratic Party increasingly finds its hatred of the President replaced with uncertainty and disbelief, I imagine they will turn to themselves and ask “how this could happen,” and, “what should...
HOWARD STERN, radio shock jock, in a surprise call-in to a radio show at which Michael Powell, the Federal Communications Commission chief, was a guest. Powell, and later his father Colin, denied Stern's claim...
...combination of anger and disappointment. Sort of a shock,” said Paco J. Britto...
...night. When the 30-year-old Parisian went to bed, John Kerry had a good shot at being President. "But I got up at 7:00 a.m., went online, and said, 'Oh, merde!'" In many languages, that was Europe's reaction to George W. Bush's victory: not quite shock and awe, perhaps, but fury, incomprehension and frustration, with muted cheers coming from only a few pro-Bush corners. If the result left America bitterly divided, it left Europe remarkably united - wondering why Americans would want another four years of a man whose words and deeds have alienated most...
...Those shocked by the latest $70 billion addition to Iraq’s price tag should not be. Shock and outrage ought to be directed instead at the aimlessness and flimsy quality of America’s plan for peace. We hope that whoever wins the presidential election tomorrow will present the American people with an actual plan, instead of a list of talking points. We believe that $70 billion can be justified—but only in pursuit of a careful, deliberate, and thoughtful strategy for success...