Democracies do not elect people to office for life. Except our media seems to appoint some people into that mode, such as "President-For-Life" Bill Clinton and, now, "Vice-President-For-Life" Dick Cheney. All day the cable and mainstream media has been referring to "Vice President Cheney" or "the Vice President." The practice is hugely ignorant, deeply disrespectful to the present holders of those offices, and betrays the shabby state of today's media.
I am also amazed at the equality of the coverage afforded to today's two speeches, given that one was made by the President of the nation and the other by, as Chris Matthews so eloquently put it, "the troll under the bridge biting the ankles of the kids walking across the bridge."
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