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The Politics of Flattery

Edwin Eisendrath | Posted 09.10.2008 | Chicago

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Edwin Eisendrath

The biggest question for Americans is not whether we like Barack or John, Sarah or Joe better. It is whether we have the character to recognize flattery when we hear it, and to stay focused on what matters.

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John McCain is Sparta, Barack Obama is Athens

Richard Walden | Posted 09.05.2008 | Politics

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Richard Walden

I found in the McCain-Palin speeches the clarion call for a modern day Sparta in their appeal to blind patriotism and triumphalism, and their manipulation of the least educated, most terrified among us.

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Four Years Later, Athens' Olympic Investment Doesn't Pay Off

Christian Science Monitor | Nicole Itano | Posted 07.20.2008 | Home

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Sprinklers still keep the grass at Greece's Olympic softball stadium green. But four years after the 2004 Games, it sits unused in the middle of a vas...

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