Faith-based politics
The series of debates among presidential candidates that are being displayed with the eloquence and logic of a Battle Royal sponsored by the World Wide Wrestling Federation reminds me of the contrast between the debates today and those of forty years ago. That's when Watergate was freshly in the minds of voters and Jimmy Carter was running against Gerald Ford in 1976. During a heated exchange, Ford made a major factual error in insisting that "Poland is not controlled by the Soviet Union," his knee-jerk response of the anti-communist rhetoric of the time.
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