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...Overall, the prospects for the McCain cause are a little brighter this time around. Congressmen on both sides of the aisle are polling the folks at home and finding that they remember their spring fling with the "Straight Talk Express," and that the 2000 election only reminded them how much the system can make them wince. And there's always the selfish side - all those rubber-chicken fund-raisers can really wear a lawmaker out, and some of them would actually rather be in Washington making better laws...
Bush must know there's no hook big enough to yank Bubba entirely off the stage, but continuing to prosecute him would only give him a brighter spotlight. TV loves nothing more than someone famous in the docket. During a Clinton State of the Union speech, the networks kept a crawl on the bottom of the screen with updates on the O.J. jury deliberations. Clinton's trial would be a crawl on the bottom of the screen of the Bush presidency. And for what? Is there a negative about Clinton yet to be established, a pound of flesh left...
...civil war that has drawn in six neighboring states and been likened to World War I. Some reports suggest that the shooting occurred as a group of generals confronted Kabila after he'd reportedly tried to sack them. Many observers believe the prospects for ending the war are somewhat brighter in Kabila's absence, since his tendency to find pretexts for breaking agreements or avoiding them altogether had begun to exasperate even some of his regional allies. Kabila's army was reportedly incensed by a speech he made over the weekend in which he ordered a final assault to eliminate...
...Ryan Adams, "Heartbreaker" An old soul in a young man's frame, the former front man for Whiskeytown escapes typical record-company cranial paralysis with this fine solo outing on the Bloodshot label, home to some of Americana's brighter young lights (see below). The studio banter that kicks things off typifies the spontaneity of the whole affair, which has a refreshingly live quality reminiscent (sometimes quite deliberately so) of "Bringing It All Back Home"-era Dylan. But the melancholy turn of the best tracks, especially "Amy," are what really earns this boy his stripes, and his CD its title...
...consider the brighter side of derision. Look at this fiasco optimistically. Could it be that we are getting all the nastiness out of our systems BEFORE the inauguration (whoever the inauguree may be) and that once one of these clowns is anointed prince, we will (precisely because of the ordeal of denigration he has endured) embrace him, and, all hatred spent, sail serenely and bipartisanly through the next four years? (In any case, that's what I'm going to ask for when I go to see Santa in a couple of weeks...