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...Time Mobile, now you can read Joe Klein's column every week free on the Web browser of your cell phone or mobile device. Go to mobile.time.com
...Column on Joe Lieberman's defeat in the Connecticut primary [Aug. 21], Joe Klein implies that all Democrats want to return to MoveOn.org's "extremist" vision of the Democratic Party. The vote against Lieberman was neither extreme nor an assault on bipartisanship. It was a vote against Bush's extreme policies, which Lieberman supported. Voting against extreme policies does not make one an extremist, no matter how the G.O.P. spins it. KEVIN FINK Fort Mill...
Klein seems to argue that pseudo-Democrats like Joe Lieberman are what the party needs. Legislation should result from compromise, not lack of an opposing opinion. To say that espousing true Democratic ideals is akin to "extremism" shows how much the Democrats' positions have weakened owing to just the type of wishy-washy Third Way politics Klein advocates. ALISON SCHROTH Hummelstown...
Bravo to Klein for noting that "The real alternative to Bush's Republican extremism isn't Democratic extremism. It is bipartisan moderation." Now all you need to do is suggest a few potential Democratic contenders who embody that ideal. Kerry? Gore? Hillary? Howard Dean?! Having gored Joe Lieberman, the Democrats have demonstrated they don't tolerate "bipartisan patriotism" and will destroy any card carrier who evinces such an admirable trait. VINCE ZICCARDI San Antonio, Texas...
...despair and fear gripping the citizens of a country that is no longer a country. The laws of a democracy, or even a dictatorship, do not exist. The watercolors used to paint an encouraging picture are being washed away by the blood of people ruled by fear, not hope. Joe Macdonald Dartmouth...