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Which brings us to 2004, another election the Democrats should lose. They are facing a popular incumbent who has just won a war. George W. Bush is everything Democrats have not been--bold, decisive, uncomplicated, a man of real convictions who has not been afraid to take unpopular positions. Furthermore, unlike his father, this Bush is a political animal. He has a clever team. If the Democrats do happen to find a winning issue, you can be sure that Karl Rove, the President's strategist, will figure out a way to trump or co-opt it (as he did with...
Finally, they will have to change the mingy, defensive, consultant-driven style of recent campaigns. They will need a candidate who is easy in his skin, who sounds different from other politicians--freer, perhaps; funnier, certainly--and who is confident enough to risk broad, bold themes that capture the national imagination rather than parsing the special yearnings of enough demographic slivers to win the election. Camouflage will not be enough this time...
...Downing St. juggernaut powers by - as it recently did on war with Iraq. Why, then, is it Blair who is now standing by in scarcely concealed frustration, impotent to lead Britain into the single currency, and thus to the more central role in Europe he so passionately desires? The bold wartime leader (the U.S. Senate has voted to give him the Gold Medal that is Congress's highest honor) looked like a garden-variety politician scrambling out of a tight spot last week, as stories gushed out of Whitehall saying Blair had once again crumbled under pressure to postpone...
Graham’s pledge to return the money is a bold one in the current economic climate. Budgets are tight across campus, and the Islamic studies professorship the gift would have established would surely have been very useful for HDS. Despite these circumstances, Graham has admirably shown that freedom from association with such bigoted views is of greater value to HDS than a single professorship...
...well be that Gephardt has fallen victim to the terrible mystery disease that has been devastating the ranks of the Democrats. The symptoms of this disease, known as Dixie Chick Syndrome (DCS), consist of making bold statements, then hopping around with foot-in-mouth before country music listening swing voters get too flustered...