Perhaps Joe Biden should lay off the memos for a while. His last one didn’t go so well.
Today’s memo begins with a cheap shot at brownie points: praise for his wife. “My wife Jill is an extraordinary woman.”
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Joe Biden emailed a memo with the subject line “Reality check” to supporters last night. We’re afraid it needs a grammatical check.
“We’ve planned the biggest get out the vote operation in history, and we need to make sure that every voter has their voice heard,” Biden wrote.

This statement contains three errors.
First, Biden flips from [...]

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John McCain elicited some hearty laughter at last night’s NYC gala in honor of the late Gov. Al Smith. In introducing Barack Obama, McCain mocked the hype about his opponent.
“Prepare yourself for non-stop hilarity,” McCain said. “The funniest 15 minutes of your life — or any other. I think he knows that anything short of [...]

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He may look mellow, but Joe Wurzelbacher told the media he’s “completely flabbergasted” by the attention he’s eliciting.
To be flabbergasted means to be struck dumb with astonishment and surprise, to be astounded. There are not degrees of flabbergastation. It’s an absolute: You either are or you aren’t.
In the competition for headlines and eyeballs and voters [...]

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