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The questions, instead, had all the noncombative flair of an upstate New Hampshire town hall meeting. What would she do about education reform? What did she think about welfare reform and gays in the military? How would her attorney general be different from Gonzales?
My take on this snippet is the opposite of the commenter above. It seems a very strange thing to criticize -- questions about education, welfare, protection of the Constitution, gays, and the military -- instead of obsessing over 'flashpoints.'
Have we become so inured to the sound-bite, anything-for-a-hot-conflict, the-more-outrageous-the-better style of both politics and reporting media that a discussion of actual important issues has become a suspect activity?
How very alarming.
