Word: kerrey
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...comes under close scrutiny for the first time outside Arkansas, Clinton may well be vulnerable on a variety of issues. One of them is his penchant for offering what sounds like detailed programs that on examination sometimes turn out to be distressingly vague. Nebraska Senator Robert Kerrey has already assailed the imprecision of Clinton's stand on health care, which is emerging as one of the hottest issues of the campaign. The Arkansan promises a plan that will combine insurance coverage of everyone with cost controls so stringent as to make the plan "revenue neutral": that is, it would require...
Only now is the Democrats' Silly Putty politics beginning to assume some semblance of structure. Though Bob Kerrey, Paul Tsongas and Tom Harkin still strive to overtake Clinton in New Hampshire, each could survive to fight in later rounds by running a respectable second here. Jerry Brown, who started as the most prominent in a field of little-knowns, must fend off disaster in this contest or find a launching pad elsewhere. The strategies of Clinton's four main rivals...
...Kerrey misfires and rearms...
...part, Clinton's prominence is due to the flatness of the field around him. Massachusetts' Paul Tsongas will probably be considered a regional candidate even if he wins the Feb. 18 primary in next-door New Hampshire. Jerry Brown is still orbiting a distant planet. Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey has been tarnished by conflict-of-interest reports, his failure to flesh out a specific message beyond a comprehensive national health-care plan, and an emerging perception that he is little more than a biography in a suit. And then there is Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, whose embodiment of Rooseveltian notions...
Most of Bush's rivals for the White House are staking out nuanced positions on trade. While populist Democrat Tom Harkin and conservative Republican Pat Buchanan both talk tough about forcing the Japanese to open their markets, Democrats Bill Clinton, Bob Kerrey and Paul Tsongas have argued that successful competitiveness begins at home. Clinton recently told a working- class audience in Manchester, N.H., that Bush cannot solve the nation's economic problems by seeking concessions from Tokyo. The Japanese, Clinton said, will help get Bush "past the election, but over the long run, we're going to have to compete...