People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness. |
People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time. |
People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time. |
Sitting on the airplane and looking out the window was terrible, ... And three days of doing nothing, really, by Bush was terrible…. I’m angry at the guy. |
The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them. |
The rich escaped while the poor were abandoned. |
The White House has to be breathing a sigh of relief, and the American people have to know that the wave of hysteria, the wave of paranoia, the wave of charges and allegations about Karl Rove and everybody else so far is unsupported by facts, |
There's a collapse in the public's faith in American institutions. The media has done a poor job. We've become as insular and self-regarding as any [other institution]. |
There's a little bit more sign of government's standing back and allowing cross-border deals to happen, more tolerance on pan-European deals. |
They're from a friend's house. Three streets away. |
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate. |
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy |
We ought to give people who don't want to go back to New Orleans the means to disperse into middle-class areas nationwide. |
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can you explain the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year? |
We've talked about it but it hasn't gotten that far yet. If we needed to do something further to reduce (appliances), we might. |