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The Choice.(The Talk of the Town)

The New Yorker

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Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching--that's the quadrennial cliche, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has--at the levels of competence, vision, and integrity--undermined the country and its ideals?

The incumbent Administration has distinguished itself for the ages. The Presidency of George W. Bush is the worst since Reconstruction, so there is no mystery about why the Republican Party--which has held dominion over the executive branch of the federal government for the past eight years and ...

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