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globalvillage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-18-06 10:21 PM
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Democrats Vs. Wal-Mart
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Has anyone read this George Will column? It was accompanied in the Post-Gazette today by a photo of Wal-Mart shopping carts with the caption "John Kerry doesn't shop here."

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Which vexes liberals such as John Kerry. (He and his helpmate last shopped at Wal-Mart when?) In 2004 he tested what has become one of the Democrats' 2006 themes: Wal-Mart is, he said, "disgraceful" and symbolic of "what's wrong with America." By now Democrats have succeeded, to their embarrassment (if they are susceptible to that), in making the basic numbers familiar:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091301573_pf.html


WTF, BTW does "helpmate" mean? (I corrected the spelling to what appears in the PG print edition, which is not posted online).

I'm considering a LTTE.
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