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I hope she divorces him but she won't.
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'm prd mmbr f th Wllsly sstrhd nd 'm stll pssd.
PhllyLss, clss f '98
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if it came from some avatar-less commentator named sexykitty, for example...i would have thought differently.
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It is pretty scary. Seeing the crap my parents had to go through when he was sick with GOOD insurance made me glad that I now live in a country with national health care. (And by the way, all the crap that the insurance companies perpetuate about how bad nationalised health care is - that is all a pile of sh*@T. I get great care here. Michael Moore's "Sicko" was actually pretty accurate in that regard.)
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"On the subject of poverty, how much did the wedding ring that you're not wearing cost?"
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Yeah just about the entire Post article pissed me off.
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Me too. I applaud her devotion to the topic!
People sometimes forget that the wives are often just as educated and smart (if not more) than their politician husbands. I also applaud Obama's decision to essentially adopt Hillary's health care plan. She's waited her whole life to have it implemented, and if she can't get it done, as least Obama is.
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i personally would skip something thats about whos married to who and whos had what surgeries, but I would venture to say that I am in the minority.
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Also, why do we care about Elizabeth Edwards's wedding band? Because we know the details of her marriage. And how do we know the details of her marriage? Because her husband elected to go on TV and admit to them. The idea that Edwards felt it necessary to do that strikes me as absurd. The public and the private are sort of helplessly muddled at this point.
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It says something about our culture that so many people would prefer tabloid-ish stories as oppose to news stories.
I read news, but I don't read tabloids. I think a lot of intelligent folks can tell the difference between the two even when they appear in the same publication/website.
One is informative, one is entertainment.
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My personal theory (not substantiated!) is this: the media writes to reflect the masses. The vast majority of the masses wants two things-one, that they can relate personally to a political figure and their family, and two, they want something to talk about with others. More people feel comfortable talking about personal matters than policy debates, as personal matters require little more than the interjection of first hand "experience" to sustain a conversation. Feelings are abstract, and are thus open to speculation.
Somewhere, I was attempting to make sense in that paragraph. Also, I think the author of the story was trying to set a dramatic scene and instead wound up failing miserably.
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My guess about the wedding ring is that her fingers have swollen from illness and weight gain, so she removed it.
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"Did you ever clap when a waitress falls and drops a tray of glasses?
And ain't it fun to watch figure skaters fallin on their asses?
Don't you feel all warm and cozy, watching people out in the rain?
That's Schadenfreude, people taking pleasure in your pain."
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