Politics Will Not Save You

By Kleinheider Posted on September 9, 2008 at 4:59 pm

A Vandy professor has written a brand new book telling folks to tell the Presidential candidates thanks but no thanks on their attempts to save the country:

Which presidential candidate has the smarts, charisma and intelligence to fix our economy, deal with Iraq, address rising oil prices, eradicate poverty, lead democracy and put the nation on a better moral track?

It’s a trick question and every four years we pound our heads against a wall trying to answer it, says Dana Nelson, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt University.

Her answer is, “Neither.” If we want to save America, we have to do it ourselves.

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