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Illeism
Julius Caesar, Norman Mailer, and Charles de Gaulle also employed illeism. There are rhetorical reasons for doing so, and Bob Dole's use was greatly inflated by satirists. But it's more fun, and discrediting, to compare Republicans to fictional charactrs with infantile minds. How are we going to get anywhere near a civil political exchange with ...
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Edgy DC
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September 2, 2008