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> # \[On presidential candidates not condemning the MoveOn.org controversial ad in The New York Times.\] If you're not tough enough to repudiate a scurrilous, outrageous attack such as that, then I don't know how you're tough enough to be president of the United States.

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2. > No. I just have to say in all candor that since this nation was founded primarily on Christian principles, personally I prefer someone who I know has a solid g…

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3. > Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be. We've wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives.

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