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Unfortunately, these politicians sometimes disregard the rights of their supporters--failing to inform them of their positions on the issues. As the November 2nd election approaches. Tip O'Neil continues to refuse to debate his opponent. Frank McNamara. As a concerned voter, I want to exercise my right to hear each candidate's position on the issues...
...issues or his voting record. Yet, in this time of economic and political instability, it is important to re-evaluate what Tip O'Neill really stands for. In a district where voter registration is 8-to-1 Democratic, surely Tip has nothing to fear from newcomer Frank McNamara '69. Why, then, is an experienced 69-year-old politician who has debated the President on national television afraid to debate a 34-year-old Boston lawyer on his home turf...
...against Tip got only 22 percent of the popular vote. Yet in 1980 Carter beat Reagan here by less than 2-to-1. Something is happening in Tip's district and the crafty old politician can feel it in his bones. You see, if Tip did debate Frank McNamara, perhaps the predominately conservative Democrats of the district would realize that tired Tip still represents the machine-style politics of the old Democratic Party. Tip's political style is to play shell games with the money of society's productive members and pay for the exercise through inflation...
...McNamara himself once believed in the same political games Tip advocates. But his four years at Harvard with Democrats who ridiculed the U.S. and its political system turned him toward the Republicans. McNamara points out that Tip knows better than most how to redistribute wealth but he doesn't know how to create it. Not surprising, considering that only five months out of Tip's 69 years were spent in the private sector...
...Jesse Kornbluth '68 provides a revealing glimpse of the most difficult Harvard of all for a current undergraduate to picture: a place where the students seemed to be in perpetual rage and confusion over miscarriages of social justice. Remembering a furtive meeting to plot a demonstration against Robert S. McNamara's 1966 visit to Quincy House, Kornbluth recalls "trying to figure out some way to sneak human limbs out of the lab so we could throw them at McNamara and rejecting all suggestions that we settle for bones from the butcher shop and chicken blood--'no symbols,' I said." There...