Engaged in a continuous PR blitz, presidential campaign strategists
always strive to portray their candidate as damn near perfect. Even obvious
flaws are apt to be touted as signs of integrity and human depth. Such media
spin encourages...
29 January 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- Philanthropy may not be high on your list of Stuff to Think About -- except maybe to hope that some might be headed your way. But political philanthropy is in fact playing a large role in your life -- indeed,...
28 January 2004
My fellow American media consumers:
At a time when news cycles bring us such portentous events as the remarkable wedding of Britney Spears, the advent of Michael Jackson’s actual trial proceedings and the start of the...
22 January 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- Love those Iowa results. Nothing better than a huge political scrum where the front-runner stumbles, the guy everyone wrote off for dead six weeks ago comes roaring back, an unknown emerges, an old war-horse drops out -- a...
20 January 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- My fellow Americans, the state of the union's finances is enough to make an Enron accountant gag. When George W. Bush took office, he was handed a going concern. Projected annual surpluses from 2002 to 2011 were $5.6...
16 January 2004
The father of President Bush the Second called it “the vision thing” --
which he was widely presumed to lack. By early 1987, Time magazine reported,
George H. W. Bush was using that phrase “in clear exasperation.” Then, as
now,...
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