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...with these hard truths in mind, which Democrat running for president is best suited to navigate the complex web of political ideology, special interests, and lobbies that will dominate American politics for the foreseeable future? Who will actually get something done? Hillary Clinton, who has the most preparation, experience, and knowledge ever combined in one Presidential candidate, and who also happens to be a woman, is clearly the candidate best suited at this particular moment in our history...
...contemporary American Democrat, the brazen U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has been an epoch-making event. Naturally, liberal politics has made the war its rallying point: Insofar as the catastrophic situation in the region correlates to the incapacities of the Bush coterie, a Democratic alternative is expected in the White House by January 2009, at which point liberals everywhere anticipate a decisive break from the follies of the past...
...else what? Such efforts usually either come to nothing or result in spirited but ultimately failed third-party White House bids (see John Anderson in 1980 and Ross Perot in 1992 and '96). But 2008 is different because Mike Bloomberg, the Democrat turned Republican turned unaffiliated mayor of New York City, might run--and spend $1 billion of his personal fortune on the effort. Both Nunn and Hagel have suggested they would accept an offer to be Bloomberg's running mate. Though publicly coy, Bloomberg is the animating force behind the Oklahoma meeting, and his aides have been feverishly laying...
...conscious decision to say 'Iowa should be first,'" says Redlawsk. "I'm not sure anyone would have invented this process." Yet Iowans have risen to the occasion, becoming "the most politically knowledgeable and aware voters in the country," argues Redlawsk, a New Jersey native and an active Iowa Democrat. "The system actually works quite well, despite its oddities and limitations. It's an accident that's panned out very well...
...TIME: If you were a Democrat, and I posted this, would [Republicans] put out a press release saying you were engaging in class warfare right now? It's not class warfare. It's absolutely irresponsible if the Republicans do not recognize all of the people of this country and the struggles that they have. What I am saying is that our party needs to change, and understand that it can be - it should be, it will be - the party of every American. But it can't be if it only assumes that the real problems only exist inside a certain...