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Article: Remoras for Obama.(the bent pin)(Barack Obama)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 24, 2008
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I'LL call her Ada. We went to high school together. I hadn't thought about her for ages until Campaign '08 kicked off in January. Now I can't stop thinking about her.
She wasn't attractive but neither was she what the '50s called a "dog." She had an average face, an average figure, an average personality, and an average brain except in French class, where she persisted in forming possessives with an apostrophe "s." She was proud of her averageness and cultivated it like the rarest of orchids. Standing out from the crowd was her worst nightmare.
In our freshman year, Ada became obsessed with a glamorous blonde senior who was a cheerleader. I say ...