Word: democratator
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...civic leaders. Among them was Ahsan, who has been under house arrest (and briefly in jail) since Nov. 3. It's a telling comment about the state of political freedom in Pakistan that, with the country set to vote in a Feb. 18 general election, its most respected democrat is confined to his home in Lahore's Zaman Park neighborhood. Ahsan, a Cambridge-educated lawyer and former Law Minister, has dropped his own plans to run for Parliament, saying that Pakistan's political system will remain compromised so long as the country lacks an independent judiciary. "The ballot will...
...lifelong Democrat, I have wallowed in the luxury of voting against some of the most unappealing politicians in American history, starting with Richard Nixon and ending (so far) with George W. Bush. I am surely going to vote against McCain, but it is going to take work, and there will be moments of doubt. This will be no fun. Doubts are for independents...
Only a couple of years ago, there were noises that McCain might admit he was much too nice to be a Republican and might run for President as an independent--or even as a Democrat. Democrats swooned and said they would vote for McCain because he was "honest." McCain is perceived as authentic, which is a deeper form of honesty than mere truth-telling. He says he's antiabortion? Oh, he doesn't mean that. Among current or recent figures in American public life, only Colin Powell shares McCain's mystical ability to make liberals believe he secretly agrees with...
...McCain wins, how will it be having a Republican President you don't see eye-to-eye with? A. Here we're going to have a guy who has made a practice of getting things done by sitting down with Democrats. And so it looks like we're going to have a Democrat agenda regardless of who wins the presidency. I don't view myself as having to defend my President if he's in my party. That...
Former Institute of Politics Director Jeanne Shaheen has emerged as the sole Democratic candidate in the New Hampshire Senate race against Republican incumbent John E. Sununu. Jay Buckey, Shaheen’s former Democratic rival, announced his decision to withdraw from the Senate race on Tuesday, clearing the way for Shaheen to become the party’s nominee. “Jay Buckey showed on the campaign trail that he has much to contribute to this state and country,” said Shaheen in a statement released Tuesday. “Defeating John Sununu will be no easy...