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...Carter's candidacy on the little hamlet, plus such lightweight footnotes as the candidate's appearances in Sunday school, his attendance at a Carter clan reunion and his pitching performances (fairly expert) in a series of Softball games organized by CBS-TV Producer Rick Kaplan. An unremarkable sermon on the nature of sin by the pastor of the Plains Baptist Church has been covered and grudgingly reported by the wire services. Says a correspondent for a major Northern daily: "I keep telling my desk that there's no story down here, and they keep saying, 'Yeah...
...road. The Mercury, little more than engine and gasoline and mason jars full of 145-proof alcohol, immediately ignited. People down in the valley whose bedrooms faced the hillside rose, wiping sleep from their eyes and wondering at the false dawn. The Baptist congregations got a cheap and predictable sermon on the wages of sin, and Bell's uncle got a beatendown truck, also cheap, from the cracker speedfreak's daddy...
...last, Carter seemed to have come out into the open. He chose a running mate, Senator Walter Mondale, who has a 94% approval rating from the Americans for Democratic Action, an apparent liberal's liberal. At the Democratic Convention, Carter delivered an avowedly Populist sermon that attacked the "political and economic elite," the "big-shot crooks" who never go to jail, and the "unholy, self-perpetuating alliances [that] have been formed between money and politics." Among other things, he repeated his endorsement of the idea of a national health system-an expensive proposition for an anti-Government candidate...
...fact is that his high-pitched voice can be irritating. Yet twelve hours after Carter put him on the ticket, he did a better than creditable job in his acceptance speech, with an impassioned Humphreyesque plea for a return to the old-fashioned virtue of compassion. It was a sermon that he began to learn nearly half a century ago from a populist Methodist minister and a proud woman in the small, stricken towns of Minnesota...
General Lee said after meeting Paine, "He has genius in his eyes." But that genius may be nothing more than the ability to speak plainly to plain citizens like himself, and thus to preach a sermon so powerful that the listener finds himself converted...