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...PBHA wants] to work for lasting relationships rather than current political interests,” she said. “The attitude that ‘Those people don’t matter’ is way too common. Our mission is not just about public service, but also about social justice working for broader social change...
Dunk the Vote, the group with which PBHA worked to mobilize voters, was formed by Ron Bell after he witnessed widespread social problems growing up in the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston—in particular, the Carol Stuart murder case...
...charge--conveys genuine suffering. He drums on the bars and talks to the cockroaches and drinks gross prison moonshine. You also have to appreciate the ingenuity of a guy who replaces the windshield detergent in his truck with Jack Daniels and sprays it at passersby and whose life mission is building "retardedly large drum sets...
...1990s Kerry backed the use of force in the Balkans but criticized President Clinton as "arrogant" for referring to the U.S. as "the indispensable nation." Kerry's biographer, historian Douglas Brinkley, says, "Kerry is not a Wilsonian. He does not believe we have a moral mission to remake the world in our image." Whereas Bush talks about the "transformational power of liberty," Kerry is a gradualist. He pledged last week to take measures to support "modernizers" within nondemocratic countries rather than wage "reckless campaigns to impose democracy by force from the outside...
...effete, irresponsible weakling without core convictions. Which is ironic, because Kerry offers a return to Nitzerian policy seriousness. But two days after Paul Nitze died, the Massachusetts Senator, who once criticized Bush for prancing around in a flight suit on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln beneath a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner, could be found prancing about the backwoods of Ohio costumed as a hunter on a wild goose chase. Those two macho, flamboyantly phony images--fighter jock and gooseslayer--are the sad legacy of this election year...