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...alliance," Latham said. "We support the U.S. alliance 100%." To underscore the message, he named Kim Beazley - a former Defence Minister credited with holding the alliance together after New Zealand's exit - as Labor's defense spokesman, and yielded the microphone on foreign affairs to Kevin Rudd, a centrist well known and respected in Washington. "The calculation of the political hardheads in the party is that no Labor party can win an election in Australia on a position of anti-Americanism or opposition to the American alliance," says Alan Dupont, a defense and strategy analyst at Sydney's Lowy Institute...
...satisfied! We should be catered to! We specifically asked for the vinaigrette on the side! And so the losers grow more aggrieved in defeat and the winners less generous in victory. What is it, after all, that most aggravates Democrats about President Bush? That he campaigned as a centrist but led from the right; he lost the popular vote but governed as though he had won in a landslide. And why shouldn't he? In iPod America, every citizen--bolstered by his self-created echo chamber--is a landslide victor in his own head...
...satisfied! We should be catered to! We specifically asked for the vinaigrette on the side! And so the losers grow more aggrieved in defeat and the winners less generous in victory. What is it, after all, that most aggravates Democrats about President Bush? That he campaigned as a centrist but led from the right; he lost the popular vote but governed as though he had won in a landslide. And why shouldn't he? In iPod America, every citizen - bolstered by his self-created echo chamber - is a landslide victor in his own head...
...United States has two of the most centrist political parties in the democratic world. It rarely matters who wins. Things turn out all right regardless. Not this time. This time there is a war on. And when there is a war on, particularly a war with so much at stake, elections matter...
VALLIERE: Greenspan day in and day out is more important to the economy than the President. But whether it's Kerry or Bush, whoever chooses Greenspan's replacement in '06 will choose a centrist...