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Since Cook was a little takenaback when the GOP adopted it, does this feel like turnabout is fairplay?
'Only in America' could Obama borrow the GOP's favorite Brooks & Dunn song | EW.com 2008
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Had Pope John-Paul II sent a letter to the American bishops urging them to acknowledge Gore instead of Bush as the duly elected President, I’m sure we’d all be takenaback.
The Volokh Conspiracy » HITLER’S LEGACY: ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE MIDDLE EAST: 2007
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