Budget Rhetoric in Presidential Campaigns
October 12, 2009
Burden, Barry C. “Budget Rhetoric in Presidential Campaigns from 1952 to 2000.” Political Behavior .25 (2003); 97-118
This article criticizes and summarizes the rhetorical discourse involving the American budget from 1952 to 2000. Burden highlights the rhetoric used to inform American about the budget as well as continual rhetorical discourse between the democrats and the republics. Within the text, he also discusses volume budget rhetoric and how it is used to propagate the agenda of both political parties in America. In order to get his data, Burden obtains previous budget analyses from 1952-2000 and compares them to the arguments used by both parties (democrats and republicans) during political discourse.
I intend to use this piece in order to highlight direct correlations between American politics and the silver age of comic books. Although this article has more or less to do with the budget of America at the time, it also highlights a certain cooperation going on between the both political parties within the U.S. at the time. This can do attitude that lasted throughout the 50 and 70s is the same attitude incorporated to comic book characters of the silver age of comics. Furthermore, the cooperation between the democrats and republicans at this time is directly reflected in silver age comics like The Justice League, in which characters from backgrounds and beliefs come together for the greater good.
