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The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

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Molly Ivins
Age: 62 †
Born: 1944
Born: August 30
Died: 2007
Died: January 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Monterey
California
Along
Results
Right
Funnier
Founders
Intended

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Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.
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Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
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Manners are just a formal expression of how you treat people.
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Of course, it has never paid much.
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So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.
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