files/politics-offensive

Well, here it is, 1983, so it won't be long before you start reading a lot
of boring stories about people like Vance Hartke.  Hartke is a governor or
mayor or something from one of the flatter states, and the reason you'll be
reading about him is that he's one of the 50 top contenders for the 1984
Democratic presidential nomination.  These men will spend the next 18 months
going around the country engaging in the most degrading activities
imaginable, such as wearing idiot hats and appearing on "Meet the Press."
"Meet the Press" is one of those Sunday morning public interest shows that
the public is not the least bit interested in.  It features a panel of
reporters who ask questions of a guest politician, who wins an Amana home
freezer if he can get through the entire show without answering a single
question ...
		-- Dave Barry, "On Presidential Politics"