Till cant cease, nothing else can begin.
Thomas Carlyle
There are moments in American life when events lurch out of context, when the public is hurtled from dim awareness of a seemingly trivial news item into a maelstrom of moral reappraisal. That appears to be happening in the affair that the Washington press corps has predictably dubbed "Debategate."
The story first arose as a footnote to history: a terse report that a "briefing book" drawn up to help President Carter prepare for his 1980 campaign debate with Ronald Reagan found its way to Reagan's staff...
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