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The State of the Union Is Wrong

By Lisa Sorg

San Antonio Current | February 8, 2006

It's too late to un-elect Bush, but Americans have a choice in the next presidential race, and it can't be another vacant, power-mongering theocrat.

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Tags: Bush administration, George W. Bush, state of the union address

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