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Seems like Biden was a manic-depressive without the depressive -- which maybe is a blessing?

A cynical bit of Irish counsel: "Fuck 'em, all but six -- you need pallbearers."

More about Gary Hart and Donna Rice. Are there any accusations of infidelity about anyone that didn't turn out to be true? Seriously -- I wonder!

Does it count as irony that Gary Hart is still married to the same woman he was married to when the Donna Rice affair killed his presidential candidacy? I wonder whether there will ever be presidents with "open" marriages -- Gingrich is available... in more ways than one.

Gary Hart and Donna Rice. Could a candidate and then president get away with an extramarital affair? Bill Clinton sort of did -- but not really: he paid a heavy price.

George H.W. Bush debated an empty chair 50 years before Clint Eastwood did. Actually, Bush went up against a recording of his opponent for the Senate.

From Birchers to Birthers, the GOP has a paranoid, anti-government, extremist lineage that goes way back.

"Sure, the path to professorship was wider than the dog track to personal salvation... still, it was not the grand boulevard of life."

It's hard to imagine Joe Biden struggling with a stuttering problem.

Sometimes as I'm reading a book I think, this book doesn't need to be *half* as good as it is. This is that kind of book.