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...good news for John Kerry is that he didn't pull an Al Gore. Instead of moping around after the election, putting on weight and growing a beard, the 2004 Democratic nominee is back attacking Bush's health-care plan, skewering his nominee for Secretary of State during confirmation hearings, and booking a comeback interview on Meet the Press. The bad news for Kerry, if he wants to try again in '08, is that there's a boatful of other Democrats already testing the waters with the party's top fund raisers...
...touted endorsements from some state party leaders. But it was Fowler - bespectacled, Southern, and, at 37, the youngster of the field - who prevailed in Sunday's vote. Fowler, a South Carolinian who lives in California and is the son of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler, headed Al Gore's field operation in the 2000 presidential election. Last year he ran the field operation in Michigan for John Kerry, who won that state by three percentage points...
...Bush is right about one big thing: Social Security does face a fiscal challenge--one that will be less painful to handle the sooner we tackle it. Though policymakers talk of Social Security as a trust fund (or, in the imagery that Al Gore and Saturday Night Live made famous, "a lock box"), it was enacted as an insurance program in which current workers pay for older generations. Today more than three-quarters of payroll taxes go to pay benefits. With baby boomers getting ready to retire in droves over the next few decades and life expectancies growing, the ratio...
...Like Gore before him, Kerry won the primary by promising to uphold “Clinton’s legacy.” But centrism minus the vision, the charisma and the conviction ended up equaling risk-free campaigning, which left voters decisively underwhelmed. On election day, he got served...
...unanimous in its opposition to the fee. “We don’t believe that an optional check-off fee is the appropriate forum to address such issues,” University President Lawrence H. Summers said at a panel last week with former Vice President Al Gore ’69 and Butler Professor Environmental Studies Michael B. McElroy...