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to understand exactly what he was planning to do and to recognize that it was a pragmatic, moderate, centrist program. But listening to actual statements of policy doesn't seem to be the American way anymore. A politician can say in exactly so many words, in clear and simple English, what his policies are, and the next day the pundits will obsess for hours about the hidden message in the color of his tie, or about whether or not he lost the working class vote by asking for the wrong kind of cheese on his sandwich. That is what political journalism has come to in this country.
