The good news for Democrats is that Obama delivered the goods without looking too snippy or smug.

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In an attempt to avoid getting snippy with her, I tended to distance myself from her whenever possible.

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Which of course drew the Gore partisans' response, "Don't get snippy!"

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Marlin just drifts from one semi-heroic feat to the next, and the characters seldom get their hooks, or their jaws, into you with the pointed, snippy comedy that we have come to associate with Woody and Buzz Lightyear.

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