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...Monday, Sharpton criticized Daschle??s response to Republican leader Trent Lott’så (R-Miss.) comments at a birthday celebration for Sen. Strom Thurmond...
Sharpton called Daschle??s acceptance of Lott’s subsequent apology “a morally cowardly...
...Daschle??s speech is a welcome sign that the Democrats may actually begin acting like an opposition party, and Daschle like an opposition leader. It is their responsibility to offer much-needed criticism of Bush’s budding doctrine of preemptive strikes and his vision for the new Department of Homeland Security. This is essential to promote the necessary, but as of yet quite inadequate, national debate about all of these issues—especially war with Iraq...
Hopefully, Daschle??s words will brush off any stigma Bush has carelessly attached to those willing to question the administration’s intention to wipe out Saddam Hussein’s regime, or his desire to create a Homeland Security Department that would be autocratically controlled by the president. Indeed, the majority leader’s words seem to have rallied some Democrats formerly disaffected by the quick, unquestioning passage of a resolution on war with Iraq that just a couple weeks ago seemed likely...
Massachusetts’ own Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy ’54-’56, riding on Daschle??s momentum, just delivered a powerful speech at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He expressed concern that the Bush Administration has not shown how Iraq threatens the United States or fully evaluated the costs of war. This is exactly the sort of ideological debate the country needs before it commits to a war, and then a massive nation-building effort, in the Middle East...