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...talk, given at the ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government, Ireland frequently digressed, covering topics ranging from rapper Eminem's hotly debated lyrics to the Taliban's treatment of women in Afghanistan...
While the forum was not entirely full, the predominantly female audience was largely receptive to Ireland's message...
This aside, the attempt to insist that the process of donating soft money is tantamount to a forum where free speech can be exercised is to ignore the gross inequalities that exist within the system. Statistical data indicates both that a powerful elite controls the majority of soft money donations, and that soft money as a percentage of the total amount of money spent on campaigns has dramatically increased over the last decade...
...total money spent on such campaigns) in 1992 to nearly $500 million (or 41 percent) in 2000. These numbers clearly indicate that the soft money guidelines hinder the ability of those who cannot contribute large sums of money to have their voices heard; in other words, this forum for free speech which soft money supposedly creates is open only to those who can afford the entrance fee. Can we really call a construct of laws which virtually hands 800 people potential veto power over the wishes of a country of 300 million--in the presidential election, no less--a fair...
...marks time so closely that a cult of punctuality has developed around him. "Pity the staffer who causes this President to be late," jokes a member of the Punctuariat. Running behind two weeks ago in Little Rock, Ark., Bush spent a paltry 23 minutes participating in a "leadership forum" in a packed school auditorium--cutting the event short in order to get back on schedule...