On Democracy…
“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
–James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
Bill Clinton on John McCain
“The choice is clear. The Republicans will nominate a good man who served our country heroically and suffered terribly in Vietnam. He loves our country every bit as much as we all do. As a Senator, he has shown his independence on several issues. But on the two great questions of this election, how to rebuild the American Dream and how to restore America’s leadership in the world, he still embraces the extreme philosophy which has defined his party for more than 25 years, a philosophy we never had a real chance to see in action until 2001, when the