The unusual debate itself has given Chinese a vivid glimpse at democratic discourse.

By comparison, much-criticized American elections such as the 1988 presidential campaign look like Periclean models of democratic discourse.

This is daddy knows best, and it's a deep distrust of democratic discourse.

Slowly, a polarized nation relearned democratic discourse.

Because the electorate's perception of reality can easily be manipulated, democratic political discourse does not necessarily lead to a better understanding of reality.

Honest democratic discourse died in the process.

When Christians - liberal or conservative - invoke a biblical theocracy as a handy guide to contemporary politics, they threaten our democratic discourse.

Mr Haider has demonstrated, over the past years by both words and deeds, that he deserves to be excluded from normal democratic discourse.

That is mixing real discrimination based on race or religion with an opposition towards ideology, which is justified in democratic political discourse.

No more of those exercises in democratic discourse - read argument -at each fork of the trail.