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Me it me, said Barack, for I campaigned as a peace candidate and I have escalated the wars on the Afghanis and the Pakistanis, and I have campaigned for Single Payer and the Public Option and now have flushed them into the corporate cess-pool …

Think Progress » Christian leaders urge Congress to ignore misinformation on abortion provisions and pass health reform. 2010

We haven't yet had the inauguration of "The One" in the U.S. that will begin to turn our country into a real cess-pool of division and bigotry and more anti-Jewish media lies.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

They've all got their mouths open with the words swallowing each other whole, pushing me out like some flat golgi body pressed against the membrane of this cess-pool restaurant.

Epithelial Sample 2009

And they wonder why their comments are a cess-pool?

Newspapers get the kind of communities they deserve » Nieman Journalism Lab 2009

Over a thousand young recruits passed through the Deepcut barracks every year -- many of them just sixteen, many of them illiterate -- and from the moment they arrived, they were inducted into a culture where they were forced to participate in extreme and bizarre acts: being thrown out of a window if their locker was untidy, being pissed on by officers, being made to swim through a cess-pool.

Johann Hari: Britain Now Has Its Own Abu Graib - Inflicted By Troops, On Troops 2009

There was something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something

Les Miserables 2008

At times, that stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth.

Les Miserables 2008

All the miasms of the cess-pool are mingled with the breath of the city; hence this bad breath.

Les Miserables 2008

Obama himself stoked this image of being above politics, of bringing high mindedness back to American politics after the cess-pool of the Bush, and, more sotto voce, the partisanship of the Clinton years.

Bart Motes: What a Week 2008

What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a point as not to leave upon it a single spot?

Les Miserables 2008