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But it's the WP , in an inside story, which observes that Clinton in his brief remarks eulogizing Chiles seemed to take an oblique swipe at Russell Feingold, the lone Senate Democrat to vote against the White House in the past two days.
Why can't the Master Vampire in John Carpenter's Vampires , a creature who has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to disembowel and decapitate humans with a single swipe of his hand, manage to do anything more deadly to James Woods during their final epochal confrontation than just cuff him around?
Bennett had reviewed that speech before Bush gave it, though he emphasized at today's press conference that he didn't insert the Bork swipe, and that when he read it he didn't really think of it as a Bork swipe so much as a "synecdoche" for the excessive social-issues pessimism that is common among conservatives.
Perhaps they came for the e-goodies: this year, the Vatican produced "pilgrim cards" embedded with microchips, which visitors can swipe to reserve seats at masses, on tour buses, and in restaurants.
(The quote is from David Whitman's The Optimism Gap .) Earlier this month, Bennett spoke in a similar vein when he defended an offhand swipe at Robert Bork's sourpuss tome Slouching Towards Gomorrah that George W. Bush made in a recent speech on education.