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...telltale sign that a new technology is here to stay when it ends a politician??s career. The reel-to-reel tapes that sank Nixon may be relics today, but e-mail and instant messaging scandals have been shaking up the White House and Congress for years, and there could be no Spitzer downfall without mobile phone recordings or online banking records. Just last month, another new medium won legitimacy as evidence of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s alleged affair with his Chief of Staff was exposed via text messages...
...people think he’s pretty good-looking.” But not everyone is as optimistic about the prospect of Ma’s presidency. Chieh-Ting Yeh ’04, who has also met Ma on several occasions, said he feels that the politician??s perfect self-presentation was over the top. “He’s very well-spoken, pretty gentle-mannered,” Yeh said. “He knows exactly what he wants to say, but I’d like to see a more personal side...
...make sense, given that it was the profit-maximizing function of corporations that induces much of the current system’s quality and accessibility issues. But it started to come together once I realized that Clinton receives more funding from insurance and pharmaceutical companies than anybody other politician??Republican or Democrat. Indeed, as the reality became clearer to me, a very different Hillary emerged than the one Americans saw crying in New Hampshire recently because she cared so much about...
...order to depoliticize social issues, such as healthcare, the Republican Party must first acknowledge those issues and then, begin developing solutions. It is not a divorce from their political beliefs, but simply a politician??s true occupation: developing creative solutions to the nation’s most pressing problems...
...strategy, neither do the Democrats—they simply have a date. The game of political brinksmanship being played by Congressional leadership and the President is a dangerous one; the lives of American soldiers hang in the balance. Though the pressure of the 2008 elections is looming on every politician??s radar screen, the only way we will extricate ourselves from this mess is if both Congress and Bush stop their game of veiled threats and casting aspersions. Bush should change his policy; the Democrats should cut out the timetable. Furthermore, the Democrats’ spending bill...