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Cross Culture

Uncivil civility, unfunny comedy, and the search for self at the RNC

By Will Boisvert

Steven Gustave has a shaved head, Vin Diesel muscles and a black-leather biker outfit, and is waving a red flag emblazoned with the defiant Che Guevara. Gustave is, in short, your typical Kerry voter at the big August 29 march protesting the Republican Convention. Republicans had hoped, and Democrats had feared, that such an apparition would herald 1968-style convention violence,… return to article

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    From Rich Galen’s latest production:

    “Meanwhile, back on the campaign trail, yesterday’s piece by Tom Raum of the Associated Press, demonstrated what the problems facing the Kerry campaign really are:

    “President Bush has been solidifying his gains in states that once were dead heats, forcing both parties’ campaigns to alter strategies as the electoral battleground shrinks. Democrat John Kerry is struggling to stay afloat in some hotly contested states, including Missouri, Wisconsin and Ohio, where polls show Bush pulling ahead.”

    And that’s no forgery.”

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    India Posted by friends on Sep 16, 2004 at 1:05 AM
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