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When she hung up, I thought, "All righty, we need to dig us up some subject matter, don't we?" I had a notion to call Andy Hedden-Nicely and ask him the one question [Cope] should have asked back when he was bitching about that third-party United crud. "Andy, old hoss ...," I would have asked, "can you name one position you've taken, one plank in your platform, one single thing you've proposed, that couldn't have been proposed as a Democrat? Or a Republican, for that matter?"
I have to keep reminding myself many of you are such busy, busy hepcats-what with your Monday Night Football and your scrapbooking-that you don't have time to keep up with what's happening to America. So kiddies, shush up like good little learners, and I'll tell you about [Max Cleland]. Cleland is the nation's most prominent benchmark of how low-down and rotten the modern Republican Party has become. Four years ago, he was the Democratic senator from Georgia, and he's still easy to spot in a crowd. Always has a big huggy bear grin on his easy-going mug, and besides that, he's the guy in the wheelchair. He took a grenade almost 40 years ago, and left three of his four limbs in Vietnam.There. I'm done. That's Cope's column for this week. And to tell the truth, I didn't mind doing it, now that I've done it. It's a privilege to promote a guy like Cleland, even if it helps out a guy like Cope.See the full content of this document
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Cleland Clearly
What happened is, Cope's wife calls me up and says "Robert, there is something wrong with my husband," and I say, "No kidding," but she says, "I'm serious. He's bouncing around like an escaped circus clown, telling everybody he bumps into how he was voted the best writer in Boise. I mean, total strangers and small childr...
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