[lbo-talk] strong, stronger, strongest!!!: a party with penisenvy?

[Carl Remick]

>>The 2004 Dem platform - a 41-page document called "Strong at Home, 
>>Respected in the World" - includes 66 uses of the string "strong" 
>>(including "stronger" and "strongest"), and 41 uses of "strength."
>>
>>Doug
>
>This is a practice with a long, distinguished tradition in the private 
>sector.  ...  I will defer to Dr. F. for the usual explanations.
>
>Carl

NEWS ANALYSIS

Strong Show of 'Strength'

By TODD S. PURDUM

Published: July 30, 2004

BOSTON, July 29 - For months, John Kerry and his supporters have told voters 
that he is strong enough to keep the nation safe and caring enough to make 
it comfortable with him as president. On Thursday night his goal was to show 
the biggest audience of his life that both claims were true, and he gave it 
his best shot.

In an emphatic speech that used some variation of the word "strength'' 17 
times, Mr. Kerry portrayed himself not only as a plausible, but also as a 
vastly preferable commander in chief to President Bush ...

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/30/politics/campaign/30asses.final.html?hp>

Hmm, not to engage in reckless speculation about prostate-cancer-survivor 
Kerry's medical condition, but with this potency leitmotif, his campaign is 
beginning to seem like a Viagra or Levitra ad campaign.

Carl

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