Category Archives: U. S. Politics

On democracy as entertainment, plus serious things.

Forget the catch phrases and imagery. This debate brought out the difference between Bush and Kerry on nuclear proliferation. It’s a down home issue where I come from.

Mid-Americans don’t really care where their running shoes are glued together as long as they’re affordable. So does it matter where their books are put together?

Is Justin A. Frank’s frightening Freudian profile, “Bush On The Couch” really psychology? Or is it just couched that way?

The networks were indulging in their “survivor” show fare, but he was impressive on C-Span, with his FDR way of gesturing with his head and neck, this true survivor who called John Kerry “my bother.”

Teresa Heinz Kerry was right. The media celebrities intent upon enforcing a sort of high school code of popularity, good looks and cliches should go shove it.

Why does the White House give special access to an anti-American, royalist, untrustworthy and unreliable foreign power? See the movie, read the book.

Did the media just go blank on the propaganda that supported the first Gulf War? At least The New York Times and Bob Woodward have published apologies.

The psychological explanation for Abu Ghraib currently circulating in the media doesn’t let the military command off the hook. John Kerry is missing another opportunity here.

Look. The authority of George W. Bush to speak for me is probably constitutional. But he arrogates an authority higher than that.

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