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Reality dawned in 1998, just months after the victory of the centrist Social Democrat party. Jan Mladek, the republic's current Deputy Finance Minister for Privatization, planned to privatize the country's major banks after the Social Democrats took office, but slowly, perhaps keeping one in state hands. Two years later, three of four banks have been sold, and the last one is due to be privatized early next year. Mladek's explanation? "Social Democrat governments privatize only when they need money or something doesn't work. Ours is not an exception...
...polls show him winning. But it wasn't quite what he needed, I think. He needs to take the last three weeks and hammer home the prosperity and make the message: Don't go back. For Bush? Keep doing what you're doing. People think you're a moderate, centrist leader and a decent guy. That's a winning combination...
...moaned Bush, if only the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, "the kind of leaders I would work with as president," were still in charge of the other party. "Vice President Gore has cast his lot with the old Democratic party," he said. "Just when progress on important issues seems within reach, my opponent has left the vital center of American politics...
Myth #1: Joe Lieberman is a moderate. When Al Gore '69 chose the Connecticut senator, the media and Democratic faithful were gleeful about Lieberman's supposedly centrist message. The truth is, however, Lieberman isn't nearly as moderate as he is portrayed. The ultra-liberal Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) has given him a gold-star rating, second only to Massachusetts' favorite Senator, Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56, for voting with them 95 percent of the time...
Supporters have crooned that it's the other five percent that matters. Well, you can kiss even that five percent goodbye. All of Lieberman's centrist leanings have been ditched for the position of number two yes-man. In 1995, Lieberman was attacked by Jesse Jackson as "irresponsible" for his bold statements against affirmative action and Proposition 209, the California initiative against racial preferences. Lieberman said that "the current system of group preferences has to end. For after all, if you discriminate in favor of one group on the basis of race, you thereby discriminate against another group...