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What happened? George Farah, a second-year student at the law school and the founder of Open Debates, a non-profit, non-partisan group, says the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) is where the problem starts. After taking over sponsorship of presidential debates from the League of Women Voters beginning in 1988, debates have gradually deteriorated into what we have today...
...RICHARD CLARKE A TRUTH TELLER OR A PARTISAN SELF-PROMOTER? My own reading of him is that he is confused, and certainly he is confusing. He has become intensely partisan. He is edging over toward taking responsibility for disarmament and original sin, and apologizing, in behalf of us all, for both...
...sting for the center-right of the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton got nearly as much flak from the disaffiliated left as from the entrenched right. But Air America's hosts, who range from centrist-left (Franken) to Pacifica pink (morning-drive-time japer Marc Maron), are forthrightly partisan. In their zeal to defeat Bush, they seek out strategic allies rather than ideological ones. Thus Randi Rhodes, the hectoring, cocksure afternoon-drive-time host, cuddled up to the right-wing Patrick Buchanan--who opposed the Iraq war, so he's cool--and berated Ralph Nader until he hung...
...believe that George W. Bush has misled the public for political reasons. The same poll found that 57% believe that John Kerry has changed his mind on issues for political reasons. A separate CNN/Gallup poll showed that Richard Clarke's testimony before the 9/11 commission had immediately become a partisan football (81% of Bush voters didn't believe Clarke; 80% of Kerry voters did). This is pretty depressing...
...John McCain his choice for Vice President and announce a government of national reconciliation composed of moderate Democrats and Republicans. This is, of course, a fantasy. McCain has already (tepidly) endorsed Bush. But a radical move to the middle, a campaign that looks and sounds different from the usual partisan claptrap--one that features more ideas like Kerry's proposed reduction in the corporate tax in return for corporate-loophole closing--may be John Kerry's only chance to transcend the swamp gas that is threatening to engulf this long, long political year...