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September 17, 2003

Christian Crumlish

The Democratic National Committee has started a blog called Kicking Ass at the democrats.org site. I guess it beats faxing the talking points around, and I like the way they've jumped in with both feet.

There's no calendar or forward-and-back links from individually archived entries, so I can't tell when the first post was.

Most entries are signed (a few are "by DNC Research"), and there's a blogroll consisting of most of the prominent liberal weblogs.

Posted by xian at September 17, 2003 10:48 AM

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