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Sleazy Republican Ad Makes Fun of Disabilities

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3l-LxT3-q8>

During the narrator's complete non sequitur about golfing, she says "I have a huge handicap" and laughs.  

This is significant because Flanagan is running against Brooke Ellison <http://www.brookeellison.com>, who is disabled.  She was hit by a car at the age of 11 walking home from school.  She is now paralyzed and dependent on a ventilator.  She's also extremely accomplished: she graduated magna cum Laude from Harvard in 2000, and she's worked to bring national attention to this issue.  Christopher Reeve's last project was directing The Brooke Ellison Story.  

More about the national implications of this, after the jump.



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