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  • This unastute judgment drew a thunderous printed retort from WFB, who for some reason had been reading the Catholic Messenger of Davenport rather closely.

    John Leo: Barely Relevant Notes on Bill Buckley 2008

  • She then changed her words to it's "politically unastute" to make a joke about someone's age when your running mate is older.

    Caroline Presno: Behar Takes Heat on The View for Calling Palin's Statement Dumb 2008

  • The freepers are too, I dunno, politically unastute is a polite way to say it, to understand this.

    Firedoglake » Sunday Morning Talking Head Thread 2006

  • "Did Mrs. Clarke know that Rosamund accepted to go to your dinner?" asked Dion abruptly, and with a forcible directness that put the not unastute Daventry immediately on his guard.

    In the Wilderness Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • It's not Ridgeway's argument; instead, it runs like this: "Everyone in Hollywood, even the most untalented and unastute, is still entitled to the First Amendment right to have a political opinion, to make it public and, if possible, to pull a Reagan."

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • I'm not saying that, politically unastute enough to make a joke about age when she is running with the oldest man that's ever run before. [laughter and applause] That's what I mean.

    NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias 2008

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