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...think the big mess was not that King got killed. The big mess is that we didn't make sure that the man who was accused of killing him got his day in court. That summarily ended the nonviolent movement, when we would not stand up for the justice question...
...speech about race? One that explains to people that you can't just make everything better by sending out $1,200 checks? That there is a real cost to protecting overextended homeowners from the consequences of their own folly? That, yes, there are villains here, but blaming the whole mess on villainy is missing the point? That immigration and international trade are part of the solution, not the problem...
...both Obama and Clinton partisans. Most said it was extremely unlikely ... and a pretty interesting idea. A prominent fund raiser told me, "Gore-Obama is the ticket a lot of people wanted in the first place." A congressional Democrat told me, "This could be our way out of a mess." Others suggested Gore was painfully aware of his limitations as a candidate. "I don't know that he'd be interested, even if you handed it to him," said a Gore friend. Chances are, no one will hand it to him. The Democratic Party would have to be monumentally desperate...
...hard to imagine how Kilpatrick can lead one of America's largest cities, even if he is exonerated of the charges, as he says he expects to be. "This is just a big mess," says John M. Strate, director of the graduate program in public administration at Wayne State University. There are many unresolved questions and issues. For instance, Kilpatrick will stand trial in a courtroom in Wayne County, which includes Detroit. That means he will likely face a racially diverse jury that's unlikely to be as sympathetic to his indiscretions as jurors selected from predominantly black Detroit...
...With any hope of a revote in either Florida or Michigan all but dead, the candidates themselves aren't helping to resolve the mess they too helped create by going along with the DNC. Clinton accepted the DNC ruling last year when she was the front-runner; but now, because she won the Florida and Michigan primaries but trails Obama in the delegate count, she's the earnest champion of voters like Bander. She backed the idea of revotes in Florida and Michigan; but this week rejected a compromise solution offered by Democratic state Senators in Florida that would take...