Lost in a Lost World 0
In the Guardian, Michael Cohen compares the two recent political conventions and what they might indicate about the parties. A nugget:
If their three-day convention in Tampa is any indication, Republicans reside in a fantasy world where government plays no role but that of malevolence, where the free market is the salvation to all that ails this nation and where the country is locked in a Manichaean struggle between the forces of freedom and a failed, socialist interloper named Barack Obama.
Meanwhile, Gary Younge wonders whether that bell you hear is finally tolling for the odious Southern strategy:
Follow the links. Read them both.
