Wishful Thinking

By The Daily Dish

By Patrick Appel
Crowley:

What would be wonderful--and even possible if both these candidates really believed in rising above petty politics--is if they could have a conversation by phone and agree to pretend the last 24 hours never happened and start off [today] with a good argument about, say, energy policy. I won't hold my breath.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/08/wishful-thinking/213454/