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...which is attributed largely to the fact that he is farther left than Lieberman.“He’s always been question-marking why America needs to be so big-footed and interventionary,” Edelman said. “He’s on the peacenik side.”ALL IN THE FAMILYThough Lamont is a political neophyte, his family name has been a significant presence in government—and at Harvard—for generations.As a student at Harvard, Lamont was quite aware of his family’s extensive influence...
...Edelman said that Lamont’s politics have stayed steadily liberal since college. “He’s always been question-marking why America needs to be so big-footed and interventionary,” Edelman said. “He’s on the peacenik side...
...call for early elections to be held this March. Then he took an even bolder gamble: he bolted the Likud Party and built a new one, Kadima, (forward in Hebrew) on center ground. Sharon figured the mainstream had lost faith in both the give-no-quarter right and the peacenik ideology of the left. Labor voters seeking tough security and Likud voters ready for pragmatic solutions flocked to Kadima. So did high-profile luminaries from both parties, including a cluster of ranking Likud leaders and Labor's Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres. Polls taken early this month showed Kadima...
...felt personally invested in portraying the anxiety of the Israeli mother. The vulnerability of life in a tumultuous society hit close to home for Ben-Dor, whose own son recently finished his mandatory service in the Israeli army. “I’m a peacenik, a ’60s refugee and I couldn’t believe that my son would become a soldier and go to the front,” she says...
...issue; Iraq would. The former Vermont Governor opposed the war from the start, and his rationale was as simple as Kerry's was convoluted: Saddam was not a threat. Of course, Dean would have had other general-election vulnerabilities. Republicans would have branded him the second coming of peacenik George McGovern. But Dean could have retorted that he (unlike Kerry) backed the first Gulf War. They would have ridiculed his lack of foreign policy experience. But there's an advantage to not having 20 years of Senate votes to defend, as Kerry has learned. (That's part of the reason...