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...this summer's Republican National Convention, Bob Dole, the Republican presidential nominee, attacked the Democrat-favoring teachers unions for impeding education reform. In retaliation, the Democrats harped on Republican attempts to slash funding for education. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D.-Mass.) went so far as to label Dole's acceptance address as "the first anti-teacher, anti-education speech ever delivered by a presidential nominee of either major party...
...Dole and the Republicans would have the voting public believe that "the center of all that afflicts our schools is a denial of free choice." They think special interest groups--read Democrats--have politicized education and, in doing so, have taken away power from the people. The solution? Abolish the Department of Education, grant families "choice" via vouchers, and empower parents, teachers and local school boards...
...anyone's mind and one wonders if anything can bring Clinton down between now and the election. But another question begs an answer. When did presidents become policy catalogs? Don't get me wrong, the focus on issues is important, and I do want a president like Clinton or Dole, people that actually understand the nitty-gritty of the problems at hand and have ideas of how to solve them. But what happened to good old-fashioned rhetoric? In place of impassioned speeches, we got number crunching. I waited for Dole's charge to our generation...
Time after time, Clinton failed to give the compelling moral arguments behind his policies, but Dole never delivered the knockout punch. Unless I missed something last night, come November 5th, Bob Dole will still be just...
...came across the AIDS Memorial Quilt while in Washington last weekend. Like others, I was moved as the names of the dead droned over microphones. The ceremony itself was tranquil and peaceful. By comparison, members of Act Up stormed a Republican campaign headquarters across town, chanting, "Dole, Kemp, you can't hide. We charge you with genocide...