09.05.08 4:07 PM CDT
• Politics
• Playboy Staff
What would Nixon have done with YouTube? The mind shudders. More so because I imagine him shutting it down, a la Beijing, than because of the vids he might have subjected us to. In his recent book Nixonland, Rick Perlstein traces the roots of the current Red state/Blue state divide (an idea I subscribe to somewhat more willingly after two weeks in "middle America") to Nixon's political career, which ostensibly began back in the thirties when he was elected student-body president. And yet, after eight years of Bush and the true insanity of yesterday's RNC intro videos, it may be easier to wax nostalgic at times. One wonders if we'll ever get a piano-playing president again.
--Glynnis MacNicol
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