"I walked into the office and he got up, smiled, gave me a big hug and he said, 'Now, I'll tell you what, man, that's one of the things I like about you, you say what's on your mind, ' " the vice president recounted.

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The whole show feels like a man's idea of what drives a woman - so, for instance, McDonagh's professed reason for joining the military is to be like Linda Hamilton in The Terminator films.

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So I think that people think that it's like an elimination, a reduction of a psychological barrier of what the black man is capable of doing.

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Stuck like an old man in the middle of traffic who doesn't remember what he's doing there?

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