A White House Dinner Is

We Are Creating A Political Demolition Derby, Not A Presidential Debate. Those Strange Impulses In The American Soul That Have Produced Mud Wrestling And The Gong Show Seem To Have Claimed The National Campaign.

A Sense Of Humor Is Needed Armor.

The Problems Seem So Easy Out There On The Stump. Deficits Shrink With A Rhetorical Flourish.

In Just 20 Years Terrorism, Communications, The Jet Plane And The Increase Of Wealth And Knowledge Have Forced, To Varying Degrees, World Leaders Into A Haunted And Secret Peerage Whose Links With The People They Guide Are Meticulously Cleansed And Staged.

China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, For All Of His Billion Constituents, Seemed In The Evening's Lovely Flow Like A Favorite Uncle, Smiling A Little Too Much, Wanting To Be A Bit American, Talking About Peace And Pork Chops.