Here are three little words you'll hear over and over during the Republican National Convention that starts Monday in St. Paul: ready to lead. ...more

August 31, 2008

Here are three little words you'll hear over and over during the Republican National Convention that starts Monday in St. Paul: ready to lead. ...more

August 31, 2008

When Barack Obama feeds rhetorical fishes and loaves to the multitudes in the football stadium tonight, he should deliver a message of sufficient particularity that it seems particularly suited to Americans. One more inspirational oration, one general enough to please Berliners or even his fellow "citizens of the world," will confirm Pascal's point that "continuous eloquence wearies." That is so because it is not really eloquent. If it is continuous, it is necessarily formulaic and abstract, vague enough for any time and place, hence truly apposite for none. ...more

August 28, 2008