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...Liberal" is the kiss of death. In the land of the free, we have silenced half the political voice of this country. They've got us afraid to even use the world liberal. We call ourselves "progressive" now. We've allowed them to take our name away...
...After the election, relations weren't much better. Truman wrote in his diary on Nov. 11, 1952, that Eisenhower was being coy about cooperating on the transition. "Ike and his advisers are afraid of some kind of trick. There are no tricks ... All I want is to make an orderly turnover. It has never been done...
...which has been a bad sign for the other party.” Galston also said he worries that the Obama campaign’s diverse coalition might pose a challenge to his nascent administration. “Even in the eyes of his own coalition some people are afraid that he wouldn’t go far enough while others think he would go too far,” said Galston. He concluded that the president-elect will have to manage potentially inflated expectations as well as the shift from the “poetry of campaign?...
...name Barack Obama, there was a time when John McCain was a media darling. Though they’ve now been reduced to parody, the terms “maverick” and “straight talk” once really meant something to voters. McCain was not afraid to diverge from the Republican Party line, and he led the way in conservative support for embryonic stem cell research, gun control, and environmental causes. He gained a reputation for bipartisanship for his work on campaign finance and immigration reform. McCain represented a brand of conservatism that rallied moderates...
...electoral politics, when his predecessor has set the lowest bar since James Buchanan, when a supposedly conservative Administration just started nationalizing the banking system, when the public is desperate for change. What is it about tonight's results that suggests Obama should be afraid of progressive action on the cusp of a depression...