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The Big Show in Boston

By Gale Walden
Illinois Times | August 5, 2004
Onstage, the only word less spoken by the conventioneers than "Kerry" is "Iraq." The two really big elephants in the room aren't Republicans but a profound ambivalence about the "presumed nominee" and the fact that we are still involved in an occupation about which no one wanted to talk.
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Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jerry Springer, Democratic National Convention, D-N.Y., FleetCenter, U.S. Rep. Mike Honda, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton

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