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What Conservatives And Republicans Must Recognize Is That The White House Has Broken With Them. What President Bush Is Doing, And Has Been Doing For Some Time, Is Sundering A Great Political Coalition.

I Guess The Second-term Team Is Not Quite As Adoring As The First.

Great Speeches Have Always Had Great Soundbites. The Problem Now Is That The Young Technicians Who Put Together Speeches Are Paying Attention Only To The Soundbite, Not To The Text As A Whole, Not Realizing That All Great Soundbites Happen By Accident, Which Is To Say, All Great Soundbites Are Yielded Up Inevitably, As Part Of The Natural Expression Of The Text. They Are Part Of The Tapestry, They Aren't A Little Flower Somebody Sewed On.

The Democratic Party Is That Amazing Thing, Out Of Power For Six Years And Yet Exhausted. They're Pale, Tired, And Unready. Too Bad, Since It's Their Job To Be An Alternative, Not An Embarrassment.

I Do Not Know What The Democratic Party Spent, In Toto, On The 2004 Election, But What They Seem To Have Gotten For It Is Barack Obama. Let Us Savor.