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...reading Klein's "The Tone-Deaf Democrats," I couldn't help drawing comparisons to 1976. Then you had a largely inexperienced Democrat - Jimmy Carter - promising change and winning on the back of Republican failures. Carter, while undoubtedly well meaning, did not have a clear agenda and was not re-elected because of doubts about his competence. The 2008 race could be a case of history repeating itself. Obama is also a largely inexperienced but well-meaning candidate who promises change. His strategy might win one term in the White House, but with his stumbling over human rights and national security...
Safeguarding Flemish interests is not just a local issue. It is at the heart of a national political standoff that a few days ago reached a remarkable milestone: six months after Belgium's general election on June 10, the nation still has no government. Yves Leterme, whose Flemish Christian Democrat party was the biggest winner in that election, promised more self-rule for Flanders in areas such as taxation, social security, economic policy and immigration. But French-speaking parties whose support he'd need for a majority balked at his demands. So earlier this month, Leterme abandoned his stop...
...declaring endorsements for this year’s Undergraduate Council (UC) presidential election, the major political organizations have crossed partisan divides. The Harvard College Democrats chose to back Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, a former member of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), while the HRC itself endorsed Democrat Roy T. Willey IV ’09 over active HRC member Frances I. Martel...
...It’s a disappointment that campus conservatives are...endorsing a candidate that has absolutely no experience and is an avowed Democrat,” Kwong said. “It will be the seventh time in a row that we have endorsed a losing candidate...
...themselves," he admitted in a voice whose subdued calm was in contrast to his frequently aggressive political speeches. "My sincere recommendation is that they learn how to handle it." Despite his authoritarian bent, Chavez (whose current and apparently last term ends in 2012) had always insisted he was a democrat - that he was, in fact, forging "a more genuine democracy" in a nation that had in many ways been a sham democracy typical of a number of Latin American countries. His presidential election victories - in 1998, 2000 and 2006, as well as his victory over an attempt to recall...