The 18-episode fifth season of Empire, which is the second most watched show on Fox, is likely to be a viewership lightning rod, and will offer a continuation of the compelling, emotional storyline the world has come to love.
The former, despite having a lengthy and distinguished history of public service, at best, offers merely a continuation of the failed class warfare and appeasement policies of the Obama Administration which have been only a recipe for economic stagnation and foreign policy fiascoes.
The alternative he offered was a continuation of his father's 42-year rule, with himself as a putative successor, offering reform on his terms.
Offering a continuation of those actions and plans, while individually some may be defensible, is not really an offer of "change".
What is on offer is basically a continuation of the policies we've been through in the last five years, with some tweaks.
There was more than enough material, in other words, to tell the story of a president adrift: overshadowed by Bill Clinton and Ben Bernanke at home; uncertain how to respond to strategic failures abroad; and lacking any obvious vision for what a second term might offer the country beyond a continuation of the current large-deficit, slow-growth slog.
But Mr. Bush offered few new programs, endorsing a continuation of a ban on taxing Internet access and promising to auction parts of the government-controlled radio spectrum to allow greater use of wireless broadband connections.
Alcan's hostile offer for Pechiney is simply a continuation of their effort to merge in 1999, not evidence of a surge in hostile deals among big industrial companies.
The buyout offer is one year's salary and a continuation of medical benefits for a year.
The current criticism of Burma's seemingly intransigent approach to offers of western expertise, but not aid, is a continuation of this pressure.
Major versions of the legislation all rely heavily on a continuation of private health plans, offered by employers and by insurance companies, subject to sweeping new federal regulations.
