To: "homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [Homestead] The Choice
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:33:41 -0700
Well, this article says it better and more completely than I can. It is
cogent and compelling. Here are the first couple of graphs and the url:
THE CHOICE
Issue of 2004-11-01
Posted 2004-10-25
This Presidential campaign has been as ugly and as bitter as any in
American memory. The ugliness has flowed mostly in one direction, reaching
its apotheosis in the effort, undertaken by a supposedly independent group
financed by friends of the incumbent, to portray the challengerwho in his
mid-twenties was an exemplary combatant in both the Vietnam War and the
movement to end that waras a coward and a traitor. The bitterness has been
felt mostly by the challengers adherents; yet there has been more than
enough to go around. This is one campaign in which no one thinks of having
the band strike up Happy Days Are Here Again.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?041101ta_talk_editors