need for partisans

democracy partisanship and advocacy

hack and liar

kevin is not a deep thinker, just a compulsive moderate

“credibility” Rather liberals

a representative

mix in media

not a time for bipartisanship

Kant, Camus, Gandhi, Orwell

too weighty and cheesy for a debate game

too cheesy for a grave Bzrezinski–Kissinger debate

primarily move in partisan game

opportunism of special deals after 1980

WaMonthly wonk competence; TNR, Beck, Greenfield, DLC (Lieberman in Bush’s speech today)

administrative/academic non-political

Germans: Mann, Weber (journalists)

My sensible discussion