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  • So because some racists might refuse to take something like intent into account (a necessary element of murder, not necessarily “stating” it like tweedle-dee tomemos suggests) therefore we should apply the same standard in this case?

    Matthew Yglesias » Oscar Grant 2009

  • The doctor came and added a really bad drawing of what I think is tweedle-dum, but it could be tweedle-dee.

    Wait 2009

  • Obama's image advisors might want to avoid choosing a rotund or overweight VP (Obama-Richardson would create a serious tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum image problem, I think), or the verbal confusion prompted by Obama-Kaine/Oba-MaKaine enunciations.

    Miriam Hess: Obama Veepstakes: Michael Bloomberg 2008

  • What value is there to consumers in propping up tweedle-dee and tweedle-dumber, since neither offers the news consumers of Seattle any real intellectual competition (and, therefore, intellectual accountability)?

    Sound Politics: Another Fatwa Coming? (Caption Contest) 2006

  • Representative CHISHOLM: I'm finding all over America that people are sick and tired of the tweedle-dee dees and the tweedle-dee dums, who constantly flip flap from one side to another.

    The First Black Woman To Run For President 2008

  • Changing presidents or tweedle-dee, tweedle-dum parties will not go to the root of this deep and hugeproblem.

    Targets of our Missiles: Meet Salee Allawe, meet ourselves 2007

  • The insanely out-of-place tinkling sound of tweedle-dee, tweedle-dee, dum straight out of Medium.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007

  • At seven the shrill tweedle-dee of this youngster had begun, accompanied by a booming ground-bass from Elijah New, the parish-clerk, who had thoughtfully brought with him his favourite musical instrument, the serpent.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • Quite frankly, as I see it, the tweedle-dum/tweedle-dee choice in this primary is Giffords and Weiss.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • Perhaps Steven Rose has been playing tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum for too long with Melanie Philips on the Moral Maze.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Yael K 2006

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