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The Republican National Committee has just released everything it could dig up about the Democratic presidential candidates, and it isn't a pretty sight. Here's an abbreviated version of the committee's key findings:

• Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois: "An inexperienced, insulated, arrogant, unabashed liberal."

• New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: "A self-promoting, Washington insider with a controversial record."

• Sen. Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut: "A New England liberal, past his prime, on an unrealistic vanity run for the White House."

• Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York: "A calculating, divisive, lifelong liberal with political baggage."

• Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware: "An undisciplined, self-described Northeast liberal, in love with the sound of his own voice."

• Former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina: "A hypocritical, inexperienced liberal with a new negative attitude."

• Former Gov. Tom Vilsack of Iowa: "A tax-hiking, mismanaging, 'blip' candidate with no foreign policy experience."