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...party right now. In fact, the latest Pew Research Center poll, from Feb. 11-16, shows 45 percent of Americans now have a positive view of the Democratic field, compared to 31 percent in January. This battle is giving valuable attention to the Democrats after four years of looking feckless...
Dean's campaign, however feckless, has a freshness that Lieberman's lacks--it's the most energetic Democratic candidacy since Bill Clinton's in 1992. But Clinton's freshness came in part from an attache case of new ideas provided by creative policy thinkers from the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). Lieberman is the DLC candidate this time; he has offered solid policy proposals but nothing really compelling, which may reflect the emptiness of the New Democratic cupboard. The DLC has succumbed to a sadly familiar political disease: a reliance on polling rather than thinking. Last year DLC chairman Senator Evan...
...declaration of victory at the U.N. on Thursday, the Bush administration finally reached that point in every Behind the Music episode, about 45 minutes in, when the narrator tells us that the feckless hero “finally hit rock bottom.” Only then is the downtrodden divus, bereft of dignity and confidence, ready to rediscover his sense of proportion and take pleasure in the company of friends who do not revere him as a colossus bestriding mortals...
...lives the soporific life of an Asian housewife, raising two daughters (after a son dies in infancy) and attending to her undemanding, if uninspiring, husband. Years - and far too many pages - pass uneventfully before Nazneen shakes off her torpor to conduct an affair with a younger man slightly less feckless than her husband. Eventually, she dumps both men and strikes out on her own, but so timidly that her independence seems doomed. Nazneen's life is contrasted with that of her sister Hasina back in Bangladesh, whose story is told through her letters to Nazneen. This hoary device undermines what...
...Asia and beyond, however, the exported and willfully internalized American dream has been punctured by months of failed and feckless diplomacy, by the Bush Administration's disregard for international opinion and now by sandstorms, alleged errant missiles and the fact that war is rarely quick and never clean. Last month in Yogyakarta, Indonesia's intellectual center, numerous students told me that yes, they would like to work in the U.S.?because there were no jobs at home, not because they admired America. Religious and community leaders expressed anger toward the Bush Administration?not, they stressed, at the American people...