We Believe In Encouraging The Talented, But

Most Of Us Have Achieved Levels Of Affluence And Comfort Unthought Of Two Generations Ago. We've Never Had It So Good, Most Of Us. Nor Have We Ever Complained So Bitterly About Our Problems.

If You Can Manipulate News, A Judge Can Manipulate The Law. A Smart Lawyer Can Keep A Killer Out Of Jail, A Smart Accountant Can Keep A Thief From Paying Taxes, A Smart Reporter Could Ruin Your Reputation - Unfairly.

A Shining City Is Perhaps All The President Sees From The Portico Of The White House And The Veranda Of His Ranch, Where Everyone Seems To Be Doing Well. But There's Another Part To The Shining City. In This Part Of The City There Are More Poor Than Ever, More Families In Trouble, More And More People Who Need Help But Can't Find It.

The Republicans Believe That The Wagon Train Will Not Make It To The Frontier Unless Some Of The Old, Some Of The Young, Some Of The Weak Are Left Behind.

Way Down Deep The American People Are Afraid Of An Entangling Relationship Between Formal Religions - Or Whole Bodies Of Religious Belief - And Government. Apart From Constitutional Law And Religious Doctrine, There Is A Sense That Tells Us It's Wrong To Presume To Speak For God Or To Claim God's Sanction Of Our Particular Legislation And His Rejection Of All Other Positions. Most Of Us Are Offended When We See Religion Being Trivialized By Its Appearance In Political Throw-away Pamphlets.