Kerry must learn from Reagan in last debate

[BlueNomad]

Interesting reading...

Kerry must learn from Reagan in last debate

Tristram Hunt in Arizona on why the Republican bastion could fall to the challenger

Sunday October 10, 2004
The Observer

In his fading years, the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright embarked on a final grand project. Invited in 1957 by King Faisal of Iraq to design a new opera house, Wright expanded the brief into a plan for Baghdad complete with museums, parks, university and authentic bazaar. Dispensing with his 'prairie style', he peppered the scheme with domes, spires and ziggurats.
The 1958 revolution meant that none of it was built. But the ever-resourceful Wright simply offered the design to a new client. And today, the Baghdad opera house is the Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium at Arizona State University: an example of Wright's versatility and the forum for next week's presidential debate. Under the arches of a lost Iraqi skyline, George W Bush and John Kerry will meet in debate for the final time.

It could scarcely be more appropriate in an election dominated by foreign affairs to an extent not seen since the Vietnam war. Friday night's second debate started and finished with WMD, the role of weapons inspectors and the use/misuse of intelligence. In the event, both sides walked away from St Louis, Missouri, with something to celebrate.....

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/comment/story/0,14259,1323965,00.html>

[DenverDem]

1. "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" Is the USA?

Only the most kool aide inebriated freeptards could think of answering "Yes".

[Daisey Mae]

2. Very insightful and very powerful.....