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...issue we must face now is that while most of the Democratic candidates want change, they differ on how to get there. Some candidates like compromise, believe they can negotiate with those interests that are trying to harm us; some candidates hope that rhetoric and a fuzzy post-partisan “unity” will be enough to see us through. But these attitudes are, at best, naïve; the wealthy and powerful are not simply going to hand their power away, and a president who does not understand that will ultimately just perpetuate the current system...
Since then, the Harvard figure has jumped to $405,872, according to the latest figures from the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP), a non-partisan research group that tracks campaign donations...
...Furthermore, red and blue are not going away and blithe assumptions that the partisan divide can be transcended is a recipe for a superficial politics that will change nothing. Mere hope is nothing within the system. Democrats will move beyond red and blue when they actually get something done...
...McCain’s reputation as a maverick above partisan politics is well-earned. Calling on his own experience as a prisoner of war, he has ardently opposed torture and criticized many in his own party who do not. While campaigning in Iowa, he refused to “drink his morning glass of ethanol,” as he jokingly refers to other candidates’ support of ethanol subsidies to pander to the Iowa constituency. Time and time again, he has come out against special interest groups and wasteful government spending, all in the name of serving...
...politics itself works to successfully change our policies. Only Obama has consistently offered a coherent vision of the way in which a broken political system—in which politicians decide what to say, how to vote, and with whom to cooperate for re-election based on partisan loyalties—leads to poor decisions. Certainly, the Bush administration was at fault for the misguided invasion of Iraq, but the effort was aided and abetted by those members of Congress who, fearing that standing up for their convictions would make them look weak on national security, voted to authorize...