Cannibals eat only their enemies.
Katy Burns's column criticizes the shallow platitudes that characterize the Bush campaign. However, she uses one of the great speeches of our modern age, the inaugural address of John F. Kennedy, as the primary example to prove her point. She refers to her brief time writing political speeches, as if to give her special insight into how that process really works. Ted Sorenson's book Kennedy clearly describes the process of writing that famous speech and the role he and others played in it. He cites an earlier campaign speech in which Kennedy used similar phrasing.