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If you've got about an hour to kill on YouTube comedy, give this a try. It's split into seven parts and the longer I watched it the funnier I thought it was.

For a brief moment I was actually worried that things were about to change for the better. But it hasn't even been a week and already the circular firing squad's up and the Republican 2008 campaign material is being primed.

Would you be so kind to the electorate as to at least attempt to not fall apart?

I think this has to be one of the best awful electioneering stories I've read about lately -- not only because of the degree of its offensiveness, but also because of the multiple ways in which it manages to offend. Though if you happen to know a worse story offhand (I don't care about party/country/election cycle) I'd love to read it.

Does anybody compile a nonpartisan list of political dirty tricks?