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...story should have been titled "How the President Could Encourage, Cajole and Bully Congress to Try to Fix the U.S. Economy" [June 2]. For each of your economic issues, the President has little if any direct or unilateral power. No doubt every President has secretly shared Theodore Roosevelt's daydream: "If I could only be President and Congress too for just 10 minutes." But without an explanation of the President's actual powers, your article sets up yet another generation of Americans to be disillusioned when its chosen candidate fails to produce the promised manna that...
...Your story should have been titled, "How the President Could Encourage, Cajole and Bully Congress to Try to Fix the Economy" [June 2]. For each of your economic issues, the President has little, if any, direct or unilateral power. No doubt every President has secretly shared Theodore Roosevelt's daydream: "If I could only be President and Congress too for just 10 minutes." But without an explanation as to the President's actual powers, your article sets up yet another generation of Americans to be disillusioned when their chosen candidate fails to produce the promised manna that...
...cover story should have been titled, "How the President Could Encourage, Cajole and Bully Congress to Try to Fix the Economy" [May 26]. For each of your economic issues, the President has little, if any, direct or unilateral power. No doubt, every President has secretly shared Theodore Roosevelt's daydream: "If I could only be President and Congress too for just 10 minutes." But without an explanation as to the President's actual powers, your article sets up yet another generation of Americans to be disillusioned when their chosen candidate fails to produce the promised manna that...
...relationship unfold as long as it features an attractive, charismatic couple, once turned against itself with explosions-qua-flirtation, uniting in the end to defeat an apocalyptic common enemy. Even if the Clinton/Obama ‘dream ticket’ is nothing more than a pundit’s daydream, it might seem far more reasonable if the Chinese introduced lethal nanorobots into American bloodstreams—just a thought.This is not to impugn the news media and their repeated attempts to douse the candidates’ in newer and more dramatic paint. Radio host Tammy Bruce kicked...
...take shape: a picturesque volcanic island shrouded in mystery; a disastrous crash scenario; and a group of mostly young and attractive actors to play the roles of the other survivors, whom I was determined to lead on a polar bear hunt. GroundTruth was even nice enough to humor my daydream by writing me into the script as a ferry survivor who suffered post-traumatic stress and confused the plot of Lost with his own disaster experience - a role to which I was ultimately unable to rise, because I am a lousy actor...