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More Smoke Than Ire

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20041028
Author:George F. Will

And silence, like a poultice, comes

To heal the blows of sound.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The blows will soon end and silence will descend as voters wield their mighty power to decide. Regarding domestic conditions, the campaign has taken the country's temperature and found it less fevered than the political class's rhetoric.

John Kerry's campaign shows that liberalism remains merely reactive, and reconciled to many of conservatism's triumphs. Kerry complains about No Child Left Behind and the USA Patriot Act but does not call for repealing either. For all of Kerry's histrionic sorrows ...

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