All politics is lo-cal.(humor - media and politics)(Unplugged)(Brief Article)(Column)

From: The Progressive | Date: October 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

On this mere shuttle we call Earth, he big topic is weightlessness. Not he slo-mo, hair-waving, tethered float of daring-doomed astronauts in space. Not yet. In the papers, next to stories of food-stamp cutbacks, Hudson loose-meat recalls, and North Korean famine, are daily reports of weight loss among politicians, replete with before and after pictures of the President and the Speaker of the House. Get out your Vernier Calipers, kids. All politics is lo-cal.

The feeding frenzy in the press produces calorie-free soundbites about Bill's trainer and Newt's treadmill. The pop ...

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