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By the Dubya/Romney standard, killing bin Laden was an extra credit project.

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It can go negative! On wonkette, only thumbs up button is used. But on other sites, a comment can be rated down. If you want a Wonkette Red Badge of Courage, go over to biggovernment.com (or whatever the fuck it's called) and say something like "Hooray for socialism" or "Sarah Palin is a lesbian". You'll have a nice red negative rating in no time.

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They should be careful what they wish for. Repubicans detest knowledge and facts and expertise. If Obama had straight Fs, they'd make him their king.

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You really shouldn't go bragging about going to high school with Dubya.

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Mittbott's 6502-based? Well, I suppose there's nothing RISCy about him...

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I got my degree in less than two years at KMU...Kenya believe it?!

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From Politico 2010:

Sometimes, politicians refuse to cross the line. Speechwriter Mark Katz recalled two rejected jokes he wrote, the first for the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

Katz wrote this joke for President Bill Clinton in 1998 after he had survived impeachment and fundraising scandals:

“Looking back, maybe I should have raised money in the Oval Office and had sex in the Lincoln Bedroom.”

<b>And Katz wrote this one for former Vice President Al Gore in 2000, after his mediocre college grades became public:

“It’s true I got C’s and D’s my freshman year at Harvard, but, in my own defense, that was the year I invented the bong.” </b>

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At least he has some Grace.

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The love letters were obviously all ghost-written by Saul Alinsky. (Quite literally, since he was dead at the time.)

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No, wait, of course, how could we both miss it: for hugging a black man!

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Skullfucked?

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But it did serve to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor.

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Yeah, I usually refrain from even clicking through, but "never read the comments" is pretty much a hard-and-fast rule.

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The right wing nutz are stuck in an endless payback loop. Time after time they exhibit this same behavior. They just can't get over anything.

Who cares about Mr. Obama's grades in college? He's the President of the United States of America.

I do agree that his academic records are protected, and it's probably illegal to advertise to pay for confidential information.

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Man, that's McCain-level class rank!

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From the Daily Caller site: The statement is signed “Bellum Letale,” a Latin expression meaning “deadly war.”

Really? "deadly war"? over transcripts? Why don't they just come out and say they hate the blahs and will do anything to try to drag down any of them uppity enough to actually accomplish something...

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