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Mike Curtin - Head mucketymuck from the Columbus Dispatch spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Church's noon forum this past Wednesday 2/25/04.
Mr C. spoke on the fall presidential election, divisions in the country - that he expected this election to be very close again - and quoted some leftist types and the pejorative things they had to say about President Bush.

He was very careful to quote folks like E.J.Dionne and others who take a very dim view of the Pres. and not directly tell us what he thought though there was little doubt given the quotes he picked.
My prespective is that Mr C is - like many in the media - suffering from a wide disconnect from common folk who will go to the polls this fall. Mr C sees jobs and the economy as being the primary issue again this Presidential election - normally he would be correct.
I do not think for an instant that 9/11 has slipped from the minds of the public to the extent that the Left and their media allies believe.
Nor do I think that the record of the Democrat front runner either while he was in uniform three decades ago and what he did when he came home - give aid and comfort to the enemy while his "band of brothers' were still in harm's way - nor his record of voting against the military/ intelligence services at EVERY opportunity during his time in the US Senate will inspire voter confidence in November.
Mr Curtin is a child of the sixities and there is a certain arrogance to the manner in which they persume themselves to morally superior and more intelligent than the "little people."
Mr C spoke of how the Dispatch was a Republican party rag when it was founded but how it got "religion" over the last couple decades to serve a broader audience and stay competitive in a more modern media market.
A few words about this audience - with exception of one lone LaRouche supporter there I(mid-40s) was by far the youngest person in the lucheon crowd of maybe 40-45 people. This was a surprisingly older bunch but make no mistake most of these folks were of the Left....... many old hippies. Mr C stated that he had spoken to several of the regular Friday Eve forums the "church" holds but this was the first lucheon group.
I did not get to ask any questions as my time was limited and the regulars were couching questions to Mr C with references to our "right wing legislature," and other long winded set ups to questions. One was critical of the Dispatch for not providing more coverage of the fringe candidates and another praised it for becoming more "enlightened"..... um 'liberal' I think is what she meant.
It did not seem prudent to step on the old folks time contraints....... the era of these folks being movers and shakers was long past.
The orthodoxies that many of them still cling to have long been in the ash heap of history but the sixities/ seventies are a fond memory..... just like they are for John Kerry.

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