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If he&#8217;s been online all this time, that makes me really reconsider some of the trolls I&#8217;ve dealt with over the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So folks are atwitter about Bob Dole&#8217;s calling Scott McClellan a &#8220;miserable creature.&#8221; Well, sure he is. But that&#8217;s not surprising. Bob Dole&#8217;s a mean old bastard. What&#8217;s shocking, to me, is that 84 year old Bob Dole is using email. 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