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Sara(h) Smiles, Part 9: Your Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You

Sara(h) Smiles, Part 9: Your Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You

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John Mendelssohn
Nov 18, 2010
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Sara(h) Smiles, Part 9: Your Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
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Canvassing in my little town on behalf of the Committee to Elect Sarah in 2002 again today, I was struck by how many of my neighbors liked the idea of recruiting Iraq president Jalal Talabani as Sarah’s presumptive running mate, this in the wake of his having declined to sign the execution order for Tariq Aziz, convicted last month of persecuting Shi’it…

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