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Angry Candidates and Russell Baker

RICHARD STEIER
Posted 4/30/16

April began with an interview by the Daily News editorial board in which Bernie Sanders’s inability to flesh out some of his more-dramatic prescriptions for what ail the nation brought to mind the old hamburger-commercial slogan Walter Mondale used so effectively against Gary Hart during the 1984 Democratic primaries: “Where’s the beef?”

By month’s end, Donald Trump, having already established himself, for better or worse, as the clear choice of Republican voters, had given a speech on foreign policy that, while carefully scripted in contrast to his usual stump appearances, remained either lacking in detail or relied for its solutions on all nations with which we have quarrels suddenly seeing the light based on his powers of persuasion, magnetic aura, or his insistence that all his body parts were large and in charge.

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