I’m glad I got to know America before the political parties began to try to make a mockery of our system of government. The country’s founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, signaled the beginning of a truly noble experiment. The difficulty has been in staying the course.
ROSE NOLEN: Political parties do little to solve country's problems
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 | 6:00 a.m. CDT
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