Negative Space: deliberative
- More people need to read legislation
- The Boston Globe complains that the vice president’s office reads legislation looking to see how it affects the executive branch. More people should read bills to see how it affects them. There ought to be a law giving us all time to do it!
- My Pet Crisis
- Someone needs to send President Obama a copy of The Pet Goat. Panic is not the right response to a financial crisis.
- My philosophy: stop, look, and listen
- When an election is close, just wait until the results are in. It’s not that hard.
- Super-president
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The best president we can have is not a cartoon character.
- Televised debates discourage intelligent discussion
- Debates are a spectacle designed to trivialize the issues facing the community. And they are counter-productive because they specifically select for candidates who bullshit their way through the decision-making process rather than act deliberately and responsibly.
