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...Reluctant Campaigner Columnist Michael Kinsley argued that "we need to know about a politician's spouse ... in order to understand the candidate's character" [Jan. 26], but I have absolutely no problem with Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean's not tagging along behind her husband on the campaign trail. I find her dedication to their teenage son and to the patients in her medical practice admirable, not mysterious. When I make my decision on whom I will vote for, I will do so because I have listened to the candidate's platform and not because his spouse had a nifty outfit...
...suffered a nervous breakdown or had simply been drinking in Kiev, they suggested. Others claimed he was being used by Boris Berezovsky, the London-based billionaire and bitter enemy of Putin who has been Rybkin's patron since the mid-'90s. "Rybkin is not just finished as a politician," said analyst Andronik Migranyan. "He is simply not a very bright man." Strategist Gleb Pavlovsky predicted he would garner a "big fat zero" in the elections. Others, however, thought Rybkin's story plausible. Russian and Western observers with knowledge of the way the Russian security services work suggested privately that drugs...
...there is a radical heart to Latham's pitch. Like anti-politician Howard Dean in the U.S., he acknowledges that there is something rotten at the core of politics. Latham, who wants more grass-roots participation in the process, committed himself to the great national purpose of "reinventing and revitalizing our democracy." That he did so before the supreme policymaking body of his party was incongruous, given that Labor's power bloc is far from ready to relinquish its traditional role. He identified too much campaign spinning and stage management as a contributor to public cynicism, but did not include...
Kerry’s 1970 remarks to Goldhaber portray a fiery, novice politician inspired by his opposition to the Vietnam...
...Bush might find subtler ways to use Kerry's words and record against him. When Americans try to gauge whether a politician is liberal or conservative, they look at more than his resume or transcript. "The liberal moniker is as much a cultural label as it is about a voting record," observes Democratic political consultant Anita Dunn. So which Kerry will the country come to see--the one in duck boots, shaped by a Swiss boarding school and Yale secret society? Or the one in sweats and khaki, baptized in the Mekong Delta...