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Monday, September 8, 2008

Monday Minutia: Countdown to Thursday

By: The Commentariat at 9:10 am

And speaking of “Countdown…”

Time out? Both presidential campaigns have agreed to freeze their TV advertising next Thursday in honor of the seventh anniversary of 9/11. Senators Obama and McCain will also make a joint visit to Ground Zero before heading uptown for the debateService Nation forum at Roone. Every photo-op counts at this point, since McCain now has a razor-thin lead in the RCP average–his first since April.

Politico commenters are worse than Bwog commenters.Or so this post from ‘08 alum Avi Zenilman would suggest. Highlights (lowlights?):

“Obama is an elitist; so of course he’s not going to mention Columbia. He only mentions his fancy prep school in Hawaii or ivy-league Harvard.”

Followed by:

“Columbia is an Ivy league school you redneck piece of sh*&t”

This probably deserves its own post. For the weirdness factor only–not because this has any relevance to Columbia, the presidential race, or anything of even the remote importance. As background: Root, CC ‘83, is arguably one of the slimiest people on Earth.

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