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Good to see that there's at least 1 Republican who isn't knee-jerking anything related to Barack Obama.
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Tell me again why this predictable knee-jerking should drive our foreign policy?
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Since when have words like "socialism" become so scary that so-called educated people get hysterical and become knee-jerking idiots when agenda-driven politicians impede the will of the people?
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Like President Obama, I'm not interested in knee-jerking or selling out our values, liberties and dignity whenever a terrorist tries something stupid.
Printing: Republican Fear has Given the Terrorists an Easy Victory 2010
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For all of the analysis, parsing, and knee-jerking from Obama's address to the Muslim world, there was one detail that seemed to bypass the pundits.
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For all of the analysis, parsing, and knee-jerking from Obama's address to the Muslim world, there was one detail that seemed to bypass the pundits.
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Like President Obama, I'm not interested in knee-jerking or selling out our values, liberties and dignity whenever a terrorist tries something stupid.
Bob Cesca: Republican Fear has Given the Terrorists an Easy Victory 2010
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For all of the analysis, parsing, and knee-jerking from Obama's address to the Muslim world, there was one detail that seemed to bypass the pundits.
John Wellington Ennis: Obama's Coup in Cairo John Wellington Ennis 2010
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Like President Obama, I'm not interested in knee-jerking or selling out our values, liberties and dignity whenever a terrorist tries something stupid.
Republican Fear has Given the Terrorists an Easy Victory 2010
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Mr. Cavanaugh added, "the market's been knee-jerking to this stuff, but after the smoke clears we've come back up."
Dow Gains 7.86; S 2010
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