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From Paul Waldman, on Rick Santorum’s latest video apocalypse:

Holy crap! Was that a shot of Barack Obama forcing a little girl to bite the head off her beloved guinea pig? Maybe not, but almost. Apparently, it will take Obama only two years to turn America into some combination of “The Day After” and “Saw.”

Paul isn’t exaggerating. Santorum’s ad really does open with a Saw-like shot of a flock of crows shrieking as they fly away from an abandoned, windswept little town. The Santorum campaign is really getting desperate.

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