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Barack Obama obviously didn't, otherwise he wouldn't have dropped the E-bomb when he told Planned Parenthood in 2007 that he would nominate a Supreme Court justice with "the empathy to recognize what it's like to be a young, teenaged mom; the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old."
Jonathan Kim: ReThinking 12 Angry Men: On Sotomayor and Empathy in Our Justice System 2009
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Four head-spinning minutes later, John McCain went to DefCon One and dropped the E-bomb the dreaded charge of Democratic Elitism:
Inbox Deathmatch: Obama vs. McCain Delany, Colin 2008
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Delivered by a cruise missile, the E-bomb is a warhead that explodes to emit a high-energy pulse that, like a bolt of lightning, will fuse any electrical equipment within range.
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The E-bomb has been more than a little temperamental in testing, and engineers would still like another year to work out the bugs, but on the first night of the war against Iraq, E-bombs will detonate over President Saddam Hussein's key command-and-control bunkers in and around Baghdad.
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Having used the E-bomb to knock out Saddam's ability to communicate with his troops and the Iraqi people, America will wage a war of psy-ops (psychological operations).
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We're not being told exactly what it was, but we are told it's not the E-bomb, or electromagnetic bomb, that we've all heard so much about.
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Where electrical power is normally measured in kilowatt hours on your utility bill, the peak pulse of this E-bomb lasts just 36 billionths of an hour.
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The amount of damage an E-bomb can do depends on its ability to couple the energy into the target.
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