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Party Time Joe Klein's article about the Tea Party gave an enlightening insight into this bewildering movement [Feb. 22]. In the next presidential elections, the Tea Party might be a decisive force. I fear that it could deal another blow to President Obama's chances of being re-elected. We can only hope that Sarah Palin kills the credibility of the Tea Party like she did during John McCain's presidential campaign. Remi Boelaert, LEUVEN, BELGIUM...
...this Clegg's fervent allegiance to a liberal movement that hasn't led a government since World War I and you have some idea of how distant the gates of Downing Street might appear. Yet Britain's battered Prime Minister Gordon Brown is rallying support, while his untested Conservative challenger David Cameron has watched a 20-point lead dwindle to as little as two points. With neither of the two main parties on course to win an outright majority, Clegg and his Lib Dems could wake up on May 7 holding the balance of power...
...game changer would be victory by Iran's pro-democracy green movement. But Washington has little influence over the fate of the greens and the movement's struggle follows a timetable that is not synchronized with Iran's nuclear trajectory. The opposition remains a thorn in Khamenei's side. But exaggerated expectations of its prospects will put undue pressure on the movement. (See pictures of terror in Tehran...
...Democrats don't speak to angry, working-class people ... They don't know how ... Along the way, these new-style Democrats did little as their allies in organized labor were scythed down by organized money ... They have permitted nothing less than the decimation of their own grass-roots social movement. As a result, in large parts of America, there is no liberal presence...
...that TIME's photomontage of members of the Tea Party movement did not contain even one image of what recent polls have shown to be the average Tea Party member: rural, older, white and male [March 1]? These photos were misleading...