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Ever Since John Kennedy, Democrats Have Had A Weakness For Dashing Younger Men Like Bill Clinton And Barack Obama And, I Suppose, Jimmy Carter. They Balance Their Tickets With Senior Statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (al Gore Was Young But Played Ancient).

We`re Facing A Very Different Sort Of Threat Now, A More Amorphous Threat, Al Qaeda, Terrorism, And So On. And So The Military Has Abandoned The Two-war Strategy.

You Can't Get All Of Your News From Jon Stewart, Especially Since It's A Comedy Show.

Diversity Has Been Written Into The Dna Of American Life; Any Institution That Lacks A Rainbow Array Has Come To Seem Diminished, If Not Diseased.

Dictating To Dictators Doesn't Work; They Are Congenitally Delusional About Their Own Indispensability.