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Trainwreck Alert

by David Kurtz
09.02.10 | 7:57 am

The evil part of me is enjoying the schadenfreude of watching Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) totally botch her opening statement in last night’s gubernatorial debate:

The charitable side of me knows the terror of completely losing your train of thought in rehearsed remarks.

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