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\nshouldn’t run for president — it’s hard to be first in a weekly magazine — but he marshals his
\nreasons, while still heaping praise on Nader, with a cogency I haven’t read elsewhere. … Leave it
\nto CNN’s Larry King to heap praise on Bob Dole, while choosing exactly the wrong word with
\ntypical incoherence. As a political pundit, Dole is “an
\nSomeone, that
\nthe Op-ed page of The New York Times goes as limp as a banana peel. … This is especially true
\nwhen
\ntheir poverty: All they have to do to live happily ever after is look in the mirror and
\nreform their “bad behavior.”<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"