Before Bill Campbell came along, Atlanta's City Hall enjoyed a good reputation. It was not mentioned in the same manner as Chicago or New Orleans or Newark. Atlanta did not indulge corrupt politics.
When I was a child, reading was about my only option for summer entertainment. Growing up in Monroeville, Ala., meant I was deprived not merely of iPods and MySpace, but of cable television and a mall as well. My hometown didn't even have a McDonald's parking lot that bored adolescents could circle in their parents' cars.
President Bush should be ashamed. He has treated religious conservatives with more disrespect than Hollywood or the so-called liberal media ever could. He has used their opposition to gay marriage as nothing more than a political prop to be trotted out just as the election season begins, and he apparently believes they are naive enough to fall for his clumsy and half-hearted gestures.
Since last November, when U.S. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., began calling for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, he has been under fire from hard-core conservatives. Like every combat veteran before him who has come to question the pretext for war or its prosecution, Murtha has been denounced as a traitor, a coward, a defeatist and a liar.