The pieces of the speeches I caught — by the Texas railroad commissioner, by Giuliania and Palin — all played the fear and conspiracy card, painting the world as a far more dangerous place than it is while demonizing the notion of allies and international consensus. That matches the Bush approach and sets up a McCain administration likely to engage in a series of foreign misadventures.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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