It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we…

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It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have a black man in the White House but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell.
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