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Adlai Stevenson was an interesting character, part of a now extinct species: the American intellectual politician. You don't hear quotes like these from Presidential candidates anymore:
"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal—that you can gather votes like box tops—is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
"In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes."
"The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions."
That last one explains the timbre of things in this forum.
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