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Powell carries a basic set of old- fashioned, conservative social values -- he is against sending women into combat, and fought against letting gays serve openly in the military. But he is adding specific and fairly centrist views on other hot-button issues. He is basically pro-choice, against the proposed flag-burning amendment and a supporter of Medicare, which helped him care for both his parents in their final years. On affirmative action he makes a nuanced distinction. While he is against programs that give advantages to people who no longer need them, he supports programs that recognize that "racism...
...despite his recent decision to back a balanced budget, has worked hard to please leftish groups like labor, the National Organization for Women and environmentalists to make sure he would not be challenged from the left for the nomination. But the tension between attempting to be a general-election centrist and a primary-campaigning liberal has added to Clinton's image as chronic waffler. A similar tension will also make Dole try to retreat from his recent rightward tilt if he is nominated and has to campaign against Clinton...
Many of the centrist Democrats who backed Clinton in 1992, and whose ideas and policies let him escape the lethal tag of "liberal" in that campaign, are disappointed with Clinton's failure to lead in that direction. The President, however, is not likely to be challenged from within his own party, leaving some centrists hoping for another candidate...
Intellectually, Powell can argue both the positive and negative aspects of such disruption. A black President could become a major healer of the racial divisions that plague this country. A true centrist could form a governing coalition that could bring stability and end the "channel surfing" that has marked recent elections. A strong leader elected largely on his own terms, without obligations to interest groups, could define a new course for America, at home and abroad, for the next generation...
...keeping them largely in the dark about his ideas, and consulting covertly with Morris, Clinton by mid-April was telling his staff he wanted a change in strategy. A month later, he had made up his mind. "I'm getting impatient with sitting back," Clinton told representatives of the centrist Democratic Leadership Council on May 18. The next day, in an interview with New Hampshire radio stations, Clinton casually announced that he would soon be matching the G.O.P. budget with a balanced-budget plan...