first things first and Palin

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/5/2008 10:28 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>Read the fine print. That was H. Clinton, not S. Palin.

I did read the fine print.  It was the invisible print which I also read.

My confusion, ladies and gentlemen, was not about the quote from H.
Clinton, but rather from mistaking Rosemarie's "signature" sentence--
which was the first "quotation" immediately below her "The below is
..." -- with one of Fred's year's ten best quotations.  It sounded so
much like Palin and/or Bush that I saw her name under it.

Joel


>Mark Mandel
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>On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > At 12/5/2008 12:21 AM, Your Name wrote:
> > >The below is an absolutely perfect statement of how fake, phoney, and
> > false
> > >she is.  How scarey it is that she almost became president!
> > >
> > >Rosemarie
> > >
> > >First things first - but not necessarily in  that order!
> >
> > This sounds so much like a Bushism it's hard for me to believe Palin
> > said it.  (I do not argue that she did not.)  And if that's a
> > precedent, I'm scared.
> >
> > Joel
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