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The world needs the US to get over its cultural civil war

Guardian, by Timothy G. Ash - Enter Sarah Palin, the Katyusha rocket of red America. (I trust she won’t mind a Russian analogy since, as she has informed us, you - or at least she - can see Russia from Alaska.) The selection of such an obviously under-qualified candidate for vice-president can only be explained by electoral calculation, and that calculation has everything to do with the politics of the country’s cultural civil war.

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