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It's GOP Debate night and I'm dreading the idea of having to watch the Seven Dwarves (plus three) duke it out at the Reagan Library. I'm heading uptown in a taxi to an "Obama for Women" event (more on that later) --and my taxi driver looks like he's straight out of a Scorsese film. He's railing against Giuliani. "You know what we New York City taxi drivers used to call Rudy--Adolph or Benito," he cackles. "I can't wait for the rest of the country to find out who this guy really is."

Katrina vanden Heuvel

May 4, 2007

It’s GOP Debate night and I’m dreading the idea of having to watch the Seven Dwarves (plus three) duke it out at the Reagan Library. I’m heading uptown in a taxi to an "Obama for Women" event (more on that later) –and my taxi driver looks like he’s straight out of a Scorsese film. He’s railing against Giuliani. "You know what we New York City taxi drivers used to call Rudy–Adolph or Benito," he cackles. "I can’t wait for the rest of the country to find out who this guy really is."

 

Katrina vanden HeuvelTwitterKatrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation, America’s leading source of progressive politics and culture. An expert on international affairs and US politics, she is an award-winning columnist and frequent contributor to The Guardian. Vanden Heuvel is the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in The Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.


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