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...Being a Democrat these days is a little like being Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. While Republicans have their fun with the judicial, legislative and executive branches, the opposition party can’t join in the governing game. So perhaps the Dems could learn something from their political cousins Down Under. Australia’s Labour Party has been shut out of power for the last eight years by the conservative Howard administration, which, incidentally, has been strident in its support for President Bush’s foreign policy. Labour has just chosen a new leader to challenge Howard...
Gonzalez, 38, is a floppy-haired former public defender who once played bass in a punk rock band and doesn't own a watch or a car. Elected to the city's board of supervisors during the dotcom boom, Gonzalez (who was a Democrat until he became disillusioned with the party's campaign tactics in 2000) helped lead the charge against upscale real estate development to house the high-tech rich. But he still manages to charm campaign contributions out of two of the city's biggest developers. He promises to make San Francisco a "laboratory for what government will...
...Howard Dean's Style In "Hectoring is Not Leadership," Joe Klein argues that Democratic candidate Howard Dean has not produced "very much creative policy thinking" and that his presidential campaign is all "about process, not ideas" [Nov. 17]. But the way a campaign is conducted contributes to a candidate's ideas and policies should he become President. A candidate supported by small contributions from millions of people has the power to take back the government from special interests. No other Democrat has demonstrated Dean's ability to inspire or innovate. David A. Babbott Ojai...
...ever there were a time to be outraged, this is it! Klein can say that Dean needs to "stop hectoring and lay out a vision" of understanding for the nation, but I find it refreshing that a Democrat has come forward with forceful objections to the unprecedented abuse of power resulting from Bush's policies of the past three years. David Grantz Watson...
...remarkable memo to Republican candidates, which has seen no effective Democrat analogue, culminated in a list of good words with which to describe oneself, and negative terms for one’s opponents. The “D” section is classic: “debate, dream, duty” for positive language; “decay, destroy, destructive, devour, disgrace” for Democrats. The memo is over-the-top, but it worked. As one staffer on “The West Wing” sighed, it’s now been the case for years that...