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...symptomatic of Kerry's campaign that even his safest proclamations of the liberal creed of morality and care should sound hollow. He has yet to adequately convince voters that he has evolved from his brash days as leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, when he gained a reputation among many as a hollow, unconvincing activist...
Vice President Bush, the putative front runner for 1988, has tried to become a born-anew Reaganite, religiously defending the fiscal creed he once called "voodoo economics." Nevada Senator and Reagan Friend Paul Laxalt gives him credit for "making significant progress as the ultimate consummate good soldier." But even though Bush has lived in Texas far longer than in his native Connecticut, he cannot escape his Andover-Yale-Skull-and-Bones heritage, nor can he hide his gee-whiz preppie manner. As Laxalt says, "Many conservatives feel that anyone who has been near an Ivy League school is suspect...
...York Times (1978), together with Victor Navasky, editor of that sobersided weekly, The Nation, has collected more than 2,000 of these gems of misplaced certitude. "We can say with some confidence," they say with supreme confidence, "that the experts are wrong without regard to race, creed, color, sex, discipline, specialty, country, culture or century...
...wimped out. To give an authorial opinion on what happiness is and how happiness relates to social justice and individual behavior would involve taking a political stance, and herein, evidently, lies the problem. Mailer's sexuality places him with the liberals; however, his bravado, his sentimentality, and his creed of suspicious-but-generous self-interest put him firmly with the social conservatives. Mailer is in many ways a typical American, and so perhaps America can take part of the responsibility for his confusion: on the other hand. America is in confusion in part because people as influential as Mailer...
...thing I value most about the Democrats is their diversity [NATION, July 16]. They differ in thought, opinion, vision, background, race, creed, color and sex. As for the Republicans, well, when you have seen one, you have seen them...