Good For Democracy

John Kerry is right: YouTube is good for democracy (And good for church, I might add):


Ironically, it may have cost him the election:


Kathleen Parker, Washington Post blogs here:

,,,, Americans are pretty forgiving of most sins. Gluttony, lust, greed. We forgive them because we're all guilty by degrees. But vanity is of another order, especially -- and perhaps unfairly -- when it comes to men... Women get a pass for indulging their vanity, mostly because men appreciate the effort and applaud the result. But we want men to be unaware of their attractiveness. Fairly or not, vanity is deemed unmanly.

Don't look at me. I didn't write the rules. But I do know them. Women don't trust men who spend more time in the bathroom than they do. And men don't trust men who primp. The YouTube phenomenon has changed forever the nature and tenor of politics. What used to be inadmissible in a civil society is now forever on display. Fair play is obsolete and privacy is a memory. Whether YouTube is the ruin or salvation of democracy remains to be seen, but it's unlikely Edwards will be able to survive the tyranny of his bangs. -Kathleen Parker