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...inability to come to terms with this issue may well decide between the relative failure or the relative success of our precious but precarious democratic experiment," he said...
Unfortunately, even these fine performances are undercut by some odd production decisions. Virtually all of the important sequences are accompanied by precious, soap-operaesque music that is totally inappropriate to the gravity of the events. On opening night, the sappy music elicited laughs from the audience during most of the pivotal scenes...
President Bush and his running mate offer a backward-looking view to the nation's (and the world's) environmental problems. By demagogically striking a contradiction between environmental protection and economic advance, Bush and Quayle have sacrificed precious time the country could have used to begin solving its environmental problems...
...shut up. Driving reluctant citizens to the polls out of some vague sense of guilt is no accomplishment; they would cast ignorant ballots, impelled by emotion or bias, that would further lower the tone of American campaigns. The freedom to ignore politics is a democratic liberty almost as precious as the freedom to participate. And for many intelligent, well-informed citizens who care passionately about the nation's future, not voting can be a principled strategy of protest...
...debates since 1960 have been organized. Multiple questions and time-limited answers (no candidate has ever been granted more than three minutes to respond; this year the maximum is two minutes) do not lend themselves to serious exploration of issues. Also, reporters have often been maladroit questioners -- precious minutes were squandered in the second 1988 debate when Bush and Dukakis were asked to name their heroes...