Word: clintonian
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Dean offers, to purloin a phrase, a choice, not an echo. His pugnacity in defense of his liberal instincts is obviously genuine. After eight years of careful Clintonian positioning, it's refreshing. Compared with Kerry's packaged, tested, hollow rants against "special interests," Dean's straight talk is invigorating. He isn't haunted, as Kerry is, by the specter of Vietnam. Even the famous Iowa scream had more authenticity and fire than Kerry's labored recitation "Bring it on." Unlike Kerry, Dean has held a serious executive office--balancing budgets, reforming health care, innovating on civil rights. Kerry's undistinguished...
Clark has a war-hero story at least as compelling as Kerry's, but he rarely talks about it. Instead, he spends most of his time arguing for Clintonian education and health-care proposals. He often sounds like he was just briefed an hour before. It's good he's a quick study, but that just reminds voters that he has to be. Asked what he would do to promote preventive health care, he recalls how in his Army days, "we used to march our troops to the dental clinic to make sure they got their teeth Xrayed. We called...
...Iowans saw the gleam of electability in Kerry, Southerners might see it in John Edwards, who has been a frequent presence in South Carolina. He exudes the closest thing to Clintonian charisma on the Democratic roster and was born in the state. He grew up in a poor North Carolina mill town, so he can speak with authenticity when he goes to places like Orangeburg, where unemployment is 15%. Like Dean, he says blacks have the same interests as all other voters--only he says it with a Southern accent. "Race, equality and civil rights," says Edwards. "This...
...militant New Democrat. He abandoned his support for free trade. He now opposes the New Democrat impulse to reform traditional liberal programs like old-age entitlements, public education (Dean is even skeptical about charter schools, a New Dem staple) and affirmative action. Indeed, about the only Clintonian remnant that Dean supports is fiscal conservatism...
...Avenue in Manhattan on a rainy November afternoon. About halfway through Love Actually, Hugh Grant, playing the irrepressibly charming if undeniably naïve British Prime Minister, welcomes the American president to 10 Downing Street. The president, played by Billy Bob Thornton with a mixture of Bushie intransigence and Clintonian lecherousness, first refuses to give an inch in political negotiations and then makes a (somewhat successful) move on the attractive personal assistant on whom Grant has set his heart...