Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Our decline should be an issue of national debate and research, not a dirty secret. When the candidates rhapsodize about the dream of the immigrants, or proudly recite the pledge of allegiance, I remain uninspired. These are no substitutes for making sure that something of that dream remains alive--a...
In the 1988 election, as in the 1976 election, what is most missing is enthusiasm. How excited can a person get about a debate over the "Pledge of Allegiance"?
But all too often, even when he fights back, Dukakis' rhetoric lacks bite of ! all varieties. He seems to have adopted all too well another of the Deaveresque techniques perfected by Reagan: keep the message issueless and content-free. Through most of the week, the candidate kept being upstaged by...
The Bush campaign claims to be running on "issues," while the Democrats emphasize mere "personalities." But these are issues of a peculiar sort. The two Bush has chosen to stress -- reciting the pledge in schools and state prison furlough policy -- have nothing to do with the duties of the President...
That's fair enough. Emotions are a valid part of a presidential campaign. (So, for that matter, are personalities.) But the emotions Bush is stirring up in the name of American patriotism are ugly and -- dare I say it -- un- American. What unites the pledge nonsense, the furlough business, the...