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...This strategy was never stretched to its limits until 2004, however, when a blue-blooded Yale graduate and oil executive who pulled strings to duck Vietnam was cast as the anti-elitist, the living, breathing Good Ol’ Boy to John Kerry??s pharaonic mummy. A September poll that year showed that—war be damned—nearly 60 percent of undecided voters would prefer having a beer with Bush. Pundits pounced, and Republican staffers rejoiced: The plan had worked...
...students correctly and instilling moral values has to make a commitment to adopt this [pledge],” Kerry said. “And any university with a multi-billion dollar endowment such as Harvard has an even greater responsibility.” Students who attended the event said Kerry??s speech was refreshing for its candor. “He was very frank about how the politics surrounding climate change have unfortunately frustrated good policy,” said second-year law student Andrew A. Friedman. —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached...
...considered outsiders in the race to lead the UC, Roy and Nick are not newcomers to the political arena. Roy worked on Joe Biden’s presidential campaign this past summer, realizing that standing on principle is more important than taking the easy route. Nick interned for John Kerry??s presidential campaign, willing to sacrifice his time and effort to positively affect the direction of the nation...
...Newton, Mass., has interned in the public sector and is currently exploring career fields for post-graduation life. “I’d be shocked if whatever I do doesn’t involve public service,” he says. His work on John F. Kerry??s 2004 presidential campaign drew his attention to inequities of resources in poorer regions of the US that are no different from those abroad. “That was a very powerful experience for me. It reinforced my opinion that public service is of the utmost importance...
...argument is that good people can rule in good ways. A willing and intelligent leader, we are told, can rescue us from all that currently ails us more immediately and more dramatically than would otherwise be possible. When, in his now-famous speech in 2004, Obama extolled John Kerry??s capacity to lead the country out of “long political darkness,” he made a claim about the potential of power that coincides very obviously with this conception of social change. Often, the opposition to this tactic—a system-internal approach, let?...