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Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider, who was killed in a car crash in his home province of Carinthia very early on Saturday morning, was his native country's best-known person, his sharp and perpetually tanned features ubiquitous on television and magazines. He was also Austria's most polarizing figure, with an impact far beyond that country's borders. During a long and checkered career, Haider stood out from the crowd of post-war Austrian politicians with his good looks, athletic lifestyle and devilish talent for provocation. But he was also a populist and demagogue who played...
...Southern at all, certainly, but she's got guns and God and all that. The main thing is that she's just so good-looking. The camera loves her. Let me just say first, I deplore her politics and her world view, but she's the first sexy woman politician and that's kind of refreshing in a way. People call John F. Kennedy sexy and Obama sexy, but women politicians have tended to have to be unsexy, and she might have opened the door for a woman politician who can be sexy and also make good sense...
Until now, anyway. The governor's comedian doppelgänger has essentially taken control of Public Sarah Palin: the composite of images, biography and attitudes that stands in for the actual person in voters' minds. Every politician creates a public self--with the assistance, wanted or not, of the media--and a good one is invaluable. If you make a gaffe on foreign policy but Public You is a foreign policy expert, the slip is not a story...
...character. But there is a real challenge - and opportunity - inherent in his success. Obama has taken some inspired risks in this campaign. His willingness to propose more governmental control of the health-care market is a prime example. But he has also been very cautious, a typical politician in many ways. The most obvious is in his resolute unwillingness to deliver bad news or make any significant demands on the public. Neither he nor McCain had anything but platitudes to offer when asked what sacrifices they would ask of the American people. Worse, when Brokaw asked if he thought...
...Questions of the country's future relationship with Russia and the West remain contested in Ukraine's political maneuvering, but it was not manipulation on the part of Moscow that brought down the Yushchenko government. The immediate threat comes from Yushchenko's erstwhile key coalition partner, the ambitious populist politician Yulia Tymoshenko. She had joined with him in the "Orange Revolution" that eclipsed Moscow's preferred candidate at the end of 2004, but she has since been engaged in a power struggle with him and has left no doubt as to her intention of ultimately seeking the presidency for herself...