It may be that some of this defense of President Obama was an expression of partisan loyalty: good Democrats wanting to think well of the president in whose election and re-election they invested so much of themselves.
He added: "The bottom line is that it would be enormously self-destructive for the Republicans to waste time on what is a plainly empty expression of primal, partisan rage".
"Our aim is to produce an evidence-based, non-partisan blueprint for positively shaping the expression of Australian culture, within which all political parties will recognise a role," Winikoff said.
The appeals court said that whether the blanket primary proved to be a good or a bad idea, it was an expression of the voters' desire for an end to partisan strife and for "a more representative and participatory system," an expression with which the federal courts should not interfere.
Where is the expression of hope that it may be a model for moving past the partisan gridlock and cultural polarization in America?
Expression of frustration?
"We're talking about political expression of sociological change in Israeli society," Yedidia Stern, a law professor and vice president of the Israel Democracy Institute, a non-partisan research group, recently told The New York Times.
Scholarly and well documented, they are also expressions of an individual point of view, partisan in the best sense, with the felicity and sly wit that are the traits of the born-and-bred local historian.
However genuine these expressions of individual faith may have been, they also took place during the years when evangelical Christianity was asserting itself in partisan politics on such issues as abortion and gay rights.
Unabashed expressions of patriotism.
Expressions of outrage follow.
