Word: democratization
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...racist due to J. Edgar Hoover’s labeling of civil-rights icons Martin Luther King, Jr., and W.E.B. Du Bois as such. Just because the long list of individuals smeared as socialist happens to include prominent blacks alongside prominent whites like Franklin Roosevelt and every Democrat since does not make the word racial. Furthermore, the socialism charge was not leveled until Obama told a certain plumber that he wished to “spread the wealth around.” If encrypted racialism was intended, then why wait until this episode to wield...
...middle class. "At least the budget that the Obama Administration presented, even though it's huge and it's a huge deficit - and that enables the other team to beat up on it - the truth is that it's honest and truthful," says Representative John Tanner, a Tennessee Democrat and member of the so-called Blue Dog group of 47 fiscally conservative Dems in the House, six of whom voted against Obama's stimulus plan. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
When Minnesota's Senate-recount trial began in January, the state's lone U.S. Senator, Democrat Amy Klobuchar, made a prediction: either Republican incumbent Norm Coleman or Democratic challenger Al Franken would be seated as Minnesota's next Senator by April 11, the day the ice is expected to melt on Lake Minnetonka, a large lake outside the Twin Cities. But after the two campaigns have spent 30 painstaking days in court, Klobuchar is starting to have her doubts. "Pretty soon I'm going to say when the ice melts on the Arctic," she says. (Read "Minnesota, This Is Your...
...vote in Minnesota law. (A re-vote was conducted in a 1974 New Hampshire U.S. Senate race, but the margin was just two votes.) Besides, as the state retrenches in the face of a $4.5 billion deficit, another election would be costly. Secretary of state Ritchie, a Democrat, says it would cost the state between $3.5 million and $5 million. "It's pure fantasy, pure baloney," he says...
...many respects, Senator Chris Dodd is more powerful than ever on Capitol Hill these days. After enduring eight years in the political wilderness, the Connecticut Democrat is one of his ascendant party's senior statesmen, someone who endorsed Barack Obama early on in the presidential campaign and who hails from a solidly blue state. As chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Dodd has played a central role in shepherding much of Obama's economic agenda, from the second half of the bank bailout to the coming overhaul of regulations governing Wall Street. With his good friend Ted Kennedy sidelined with...