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...little less emphasis on glory days that unfolded before the Beatles played Ed Sullivan. CNN underscored this early in the night by featuring a panel of whippersnapper journalists - The Weekly Standard's Tucker Carlson, Salon's Jake Tapper, TIME's Tamala Edwards - who in this "Big Chill" context came across like the sullen kids' table at the Woodstock reunion. (So enough about the baby boom, Gen X: What do you think of the baby boom?) It's hard to believe Kennedy was addressing them when he declared, "Today, our generation faces its own New Frontier." Um, our generation, Grampa...
...Religion is definitely a personal centerpiece of our lives. Absolutely. That's because we have traditional values within that context. It centers me. It makes me prioritize my life. I know there is something out there, and we feel humbled. And part of the reason we feel humbled is that we sort of understand who we are in context to the broader universe. And that's OK. That's good. There are a lot of people who find their centering in various ways. I'm not suggesting it has to be through religion. I'm not suggesting...
...have to know the context. Perhaps in the context, whatever I said was justified...
...Well, they are not running. I think the interest there has been in my children in the last couple of days really puts me in a context where I will just say I love them. They are the best young women you would ever meet. They are bright and funny and decent and hard-working. And that's about enough...
WAYNE, N.J.--Seat belt guru and presidential hopeful Ralph Nader says a strong democracy doesn't tolerate a culture of everything-for-sale. Though innocuous by itself, the statement's implication--in the context of Nader's anti-corporate rants--is that American democracy is in the crapper...