Word: democratic
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TIME, like most Western media, still buys the myth that Yeltsin is a reformer and a democrat. But face it, he was never the initiator of democratic reforms in Russia. On the contrary, he relies heavily on the old apparatus. Yeltsin made a party career under Leonid Brezhnev, attempted a power grab in a military coup and finally was able to establish himself as a semi-dictator. Since then he has started a war with Chechnya and dismissed all its critics. Yeltsin is responsible for the continued killing of thousands of civilians, including children. Is this the democrat the West...
...press Kerrey has often been depicted as the Democrat Who Tells the Truth, in implicit contrast to the fellow in the White House, the Democrat Who Doesn't. Kerrey seems resigned to his relationship with Clinton, almost saddened by it. "There is the perception that I'm competing with Bill Clinton, and that's absurd," he says. "I've sometimes made mistakes about what I've said, but I'm not competing with Bill Clinton, I am competing with his ideas...
...much of crafting brilliant legislative initiatives, as getting them passed. In 1965, he teamed up with Senator George McGovern to salvage the faltering food stamps program. In 1990 he brought President Bush around to support the Americans With Disabilities Act, although the legislation bears the name of Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin. In 1982, Dole almost single-handedly reversed a large chunk of Reagan tax cuts in an attempt to control a ballooning deficit, and in 1983 he helped orchestrate the bailout of Social Security, which he lists as his proudest accomplishment. As the Tuesday deadline fast approaches, Dole is spending...
...consider myself a social democrat," Song explains. "Given that the specter of communism has been quashed but also that capitalism isn't isn't disappearing any time soon, what can we do to make this place more equal...
White House operatives won't admit to the slightest concern that the Morris strategy invites charges about Clinton as medicine showman. They make the case that the President, in his march to the right, has magically recovered his true self--the New Democrat boy Governor who first attracted attention all those years ago, now grown up and gone to gray but still true to his school. Reforming welfare and opposing same-sex marriage, they insist, are core Clinton beliefs, even though he's done precious little to advance the former and has never had much to say about the latter...