America Divided? It's Only the Blabocrats

People are really hating right now," Jim Lehrer, public television's lion of civility, said a few weeks ago. "Our e-mails and our phone calls reflect not a lot of open minds out there." Well, it certainly seems so--and especially last week, as the friends and fanatics of John Kerry and George W. Bush mobilized themselves for the general election. A flying squad of Vietnam veterans--not directly related to the Bush campaign--launched a slime attack on John Kerry's war record. A flying squad of pop musicians--not directly related to the Kerry campaign--announced that they would launch a massive October concert tour to...

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