Gene Lyons on Americans and Democracy

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Far-fetched ? Today, maybe. Tomorrow, maybe not. This drugstore cowboy won’t be president forever, you know. Anyway, I take it to be roughly those things that Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran, meant when he emphasized that “I took an oath of office to the Constitution. I didn’t take an oath of office to my party or to my president.”

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