Saddest Picture of the Day Alert

—By Jonathan Stein

| Wed Sep. 5, 2007 3:23 PM PDT

It takes a special kind of person to get this kind of reception at a campaign event and keep on plugging. It's hard out there for a pimp crazed right-winger who refers to stem-cell research as "research on the youngest of humans."

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