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I hope so. Her patent bigotry makes me sick. Referring, as she always does, to Sen. Barrack Obama as "B. Hussein Obama"--perversely associating him, by the sound of his name alone, with Suddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden's names--is despicable. Like Obama or not, as the Democratic presidential candidate he deserves better. She should show at least some respect, even while vigorously disagreeing with him. Ad hominem attacks, as good debaters and philosophers know, are simply cheap tricks to hide that fact that you have nothing substantive to argue.

Like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter has lowered the already low level of political debate in this country. Once upon a time conservatives (Bill Buckley comes to mind) were paragons of virtue--in a word, people who "conserved" the standards of decency in this country. Not any longer. Many of our conservative pundits (and, I admit, some of the liberal ones too) are loud-mouthed louts. That fact that Coulter clearly sells her Barbie-doll "sex appeal" goes to the heart of her conservative duplicity--while raging against sexual and moral depravity as the fault of liberals, she nevertheless finds selling sex useful to meet her own purposes. I guess that's what's known as free enterprise in a capitalist economy. An appearance in Playboy would only seal the accurancy of my assertion.

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