my most bone-deep conviction about modern political strategists is that not enough politicians have the background of being in regular-style public-school junior high and considering the twenty meanest insults they might receive tomorrow

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I strongly suspect a lot of candidates have fully internalized "don't give them any ammunition" so they want to never be caught saying anything that suggests they have convictions

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I think you're right, but I also think many of them *are* practicing their answers but their objective is to be as noncommittal and inoffensive as possible to the largest and loudest audience they can imagine.

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its so funny that the films derided as abject blasphemy (this, The Last Temptation of Christ) feel truer and more honorable to faith than almost anything else. Certainly more faithful all the Christianslop pumped out by evangelicals

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My pal Brian found it!! www.pivot-club.com/p/actually-n...

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