Never In The United States

Bush is toppled by 100,000 protesters in London. (Photo: David Bebber/Reuters.)

Anyway, I saw this article about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s appearance in Iowa prior to the primaries and decided to post about it because of the irony in the article. In the middle of the page, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:

(Six actual presidential candidates are here, too, and some campaign officials worried that Clinton’s presence would confine them to parenthetical attention.)

Heh, journalism humor. Such a strange animal.

Arts Advocacy?

Why is it that among Howard Dean, John Kerry, Dennis Kucinich and Joe Lieberman, not one has mentioned the arts within the “issues” area of their websites? (I haven’t bothered to check the other Democratic candidates.) Am I just missing it, or is arts and culture not really an important part of American life anymore? Normally there is some attention given to this issue, either positive or negative. I’d like to know their stances before I decide who I will be voting for.