A Political Agitator Finds a Double-Edged Weapon


	A Political Agitator Finds a Double-Edged Weapon

Mikeylito

7-7-2008 8:16 PM

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elections, politics, obama

Mikeylito says:

In the aforementioned "Point/Counterpoint" discussion, this would be "Counterpoint".

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