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Atlanta, Georgia. More sweltering weather, a crowd of 10,000, this time at a shopping mall. "Four years later America is a very different place, and the Democrats are saying that it's my fault." (Applause.) "I'll take the blame for inflation falling by almost two-thirds...
Mondale, sometimes more missionary than executive, overflows with compassion and concern, and for him Government is always there, comforting and handy, playing an important and worthy role as a resource against almost any adversity. Markets and profits and personal enterprise he reads about in newspapers. Mondale knows Government's...
It may be, however, that the Democrats in San Francisco misplaced their emphasis. They accused "the Reagan Gang" of pillaging the American economy and environment. But the Democratic rhetoric sometimes fell oddly on the ear. For all the talk of compassion, there was in the Democrats' words and attitudes...
There may be some fun in this campaign too-at last. Until Mondale's triumphant sentence, the most memorable remark this tedium produced was "Where's the beef?" Now, while tolerating the inevitable Mr. Mom jokes applied to Ferraro's husband, we should also have the more...
It is possible, of course, that something closer to hysteria than history is unfolding. The U.S., after all, is far behind other countries that have actually elected women to their highest government offices. There are or have been female Prime Ministers of Britain, India, Israel and Sri Lanka; although they...