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    Hating on Homes With Aboveground Swimming Pools

    Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:09 AM | By Melinda Henneberger
    You know, Rachael is also saying something important here, something we forget at our own peril: Looking down on Mr. and Mrs. Middle America isn't smart, and it IS what smarty-pants liberals in Washington (and beyond!) sometimes do. (And why is that? Would we rather show off than win?) Case in point: Richard Cohen, in a column in today's Washington Post, sneering that those who praised Sarah Palin's debate performance must have "inferred that her performance would go over well in homes with aboveground swimming pools.'' (For some reason, this makes me want to pass the Boone's Farm and push him into the cement pond; ugh.) 'Nother one: Tim Robbins on the Daily Show last night, praying to God for a smart president this time around. With the economy heading for Argentina, such slights may not matter as much as they otherwise would. But they're still hateful—and until the votes are counted, downright dumb.
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