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I only wish you were this highminded about Dr. Egnor.
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I only wish you were this highminded about Dr. Egnor
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She dressed it up with a load of highminded stuff about women and job opportunities, none of which applied the the actual situation.
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Isn't it obnoxious that the day after a debate in which even the most pro-Hillary view expressed among the pundits was that she and Obama both brought down the party's reputation as a whole, she is acting gleeful solely because she thinks she brought Obama off of his highminded pedestal?
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Responds To Hillary Claim That He's "Frustrated" 2009
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And I'll just settle back and watch the news cycle that will be all about how Obama isn't running as highminded a campaign as he says ... about how it's not really a new kind of politics ... so on and so forth.
Hillary Campaign Calls On Obama To Fire Adviser Who Called Hillary A "Monster" 2009
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This was a thoughtful, highminded and serious speech.
Obama's Full Anti-Nukes Speech: Blasts Beltway Establishment 2009
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Leave the highminded principled stands for pols in safely liberal states/districts
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It's a fairly clever strategy, but that's all it is - a political strategy - not some highminded appeal to civility and discourse.
McCain Invites Obama To Series Of Weekly Town-Hall Meetings 2009
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And could someone please tell the "spokespeople" of the campaign that a longwinded (even if it's highminded) response just isn't going to do the trick?
Group Responds To McCain Ad: Britney And McCain Both Heart Bush! 2009
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Isn't it obnoxious that the day after a debate in which even the most pro-Hillary view expressed among the pundits was that she and Obama both brought down the party's reputation as a whole, she is acting gleeful solely because she thinks she brought Obama off of his highminded pedestal?
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