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...interludes from the farcical partisan monotony: Elizabeth Dole as talk-show host, Susan McDougal in chains, Dick Morris in bed. Despite the political parties' protests that good money is hard to come by, and therefore good information channeling is difficult to procure, Bob Dole, Bill Clinton, and even Ross Perot, have had more access to Americans' time than the stars of "Friends." Yet the candidates choose to hold the country hostage to their ill-informed and irrelevant multimedia sparring rather than provide substantive debate on the hard question of our national identity...
...Ross Perot has presented himself as even more of a joke this year than he did four years ago. He couldn't even get an elected official in the whole United States to be his vice-presidential running mate, and instead chose a radical and misguided economist named Pat Choate who trades in tariffs and isolationism. The "American Revolution" that Perot launched at Valley Forge makes a mockery of legitimate attempts to forge a third party and offers us nothing but demagoguery...
...should be) based on the principle that a free exchange of ideas will ultimately assure that the people make informed and wise decisions. But that free exchange is only possible in a political system that doesn't handicap challengers excessively. What is becoming clearer with each election (as Ross Perot has pointed out) is that the current election system allows money to dominate democracy...
Think about it. How can even the most established and well-respected individual raise the necessary funds to run a campaign in today's medialaden elections? And even some who have the funds (like Ross Perot) have been refused by the networks when they have tried to buy 30-minute time slots to air their views...
...political campaign. (Andrew Jackson was elected because he was a national hero, not because of any his bold ideas for policy initiatives.) We need it because it will ensure that all Americans can become involved in the political process not just those that have straightjacketed themselves into the establishment. Perot's exclusion is no tragedy. Most people think he has no chance, and he would have turned an important discussion into a three-ring circus. The principle of his exclusion, however, is alarming, and no self-respecting democrat should forget that...