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...Olmert earlier vowed to resign if he is indicted, and already his centrist Kadima party is preparing to replace him. A leadership battle is now underway within the party between Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz. Livni, who appears to have the edge, is campaigning on her clean record in contrast to Olmert's backroom politicking, while Mofaz, a former defense minister, is playing up his security credentials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olmert Charges Grow More Likely | 9/7/2008 | See Source »

...text itself. Scully started working on the vice-presidential speech a week ago, before he or anyone else knew who the nominee would be, and it's not hard to pick out the parts that would have been the same regardless of who delivered it. Scully unspooled two centrist themes via Palin that have been key to the McCain message: the idea that the Republican nominee puts service to country ahead of career and the notion that he's the true representative of Middle America. Both themes implicitly push Obama and Biden to the left, and Scully made them explicit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind Palin's Speech | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...surprised, though, if the combination continues. McCain wanted to pick a centrist Vice President not just because he liked candidates such as Joe Lieberman and Tom Ridge, but because he badly needs to close the gap in swing states like Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin, where he trails Obama. But he had to pick a cultural conservative like Palin because he couldn't risk alienating an already demoralized base. If Palin was viewed as the most likely right winger to sell in the swing states, Scully is the right pick to help repackage her from a base pleaser into a bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Behind Palin's Speech | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...François Bayrou, a centrist candidate in last year's presidential election, denounced the move as an abuse of executive power and a reflection of the omnipotent nature of the current regime. "Such arbitrary and disproportionate decisions are what you get when all power is concentrated in the same hands," said Bayrou. Rossi's punishment - the interior ministry says the official's "error in judgment" has resulted in his transfer to a new post - and similar measures in the past that benefited Sarkozy's friends, are "princely whims" according to Bayrou. Leftist daily Libération quoted officials involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy vs. the Corsicans | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

Just as the Democratic Leadership Council paved the way for Clinton's presidential run in 1992 by airing centrist policy ideas like welfare reform and crime reduction, new progressive think tanks like Third Way have laid the groundwork for Obama's candidacy. But while the DLC's mission was to shake the Democratic Party by its heels, Third Way resembles Obama in style as well. "We play a role helping bridge gaps," says one of the group's founders, Matt Bennett. "I think we've helped move the party in a new direction that opened up the tent a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How United Are the Democrats? | 8/25/2008 | See Source »

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