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Ironically, Kerry--who even when riding a Harley seems to be the world's least plausible man of the people--is offering the second most aggressive populist pitch among the Democrats--in some ways, a pitch more clever than Dean's. Kerry isn't angry so much as disdainful; the saliva is carefully rationed. He mocks the President's more unfortunate moments, like "Bring 'em on." He does his best work with "Mission accomplished." "The Bush Administration will be measured by those words," he told a crowd in Portsmouth, N.H. "But whose missions have been accomplished?" He proceeded to list...
Kerry mixes his populist assault with policy solutions that are more detailed and attractive than Dean's. The Senator was the first Democrat to propose a crash energy-independence program, not just to free the U.S. from its dependence on foreign oil but also to develop new environmental technologies that could replace dwindling manufacturing jobs. All the Democrats now have similar plans, but Kerry pushes his more assiduously than the others do--and he offers it as an implicit alternative to the harsh protectionism (and thus higher prices) pushed by Dean and Gephardt...
...latest edition of Al Gore endorsed Howard Dean for President last week. This surprised a lot of people, including me. But Gore 6.0 seems more radical than previous models, with a passion upgrade from the glitches in 5.0 (clumsy populist presidential candidate), 4.0 (clumsy earth-toned presidential candidate), 3.0 (loyal Vice President) and 2.0 (militant New Democratic candidate for President in 1988). Watching Gore and Dean together on the podium--twins in dark blue suits and light blue ties, Gore in populist growl-shout mode, complete with intermittent Southern accent--I realized the utter logic of the move...
...wrote in 1979. Maybe that even works better for our purposes. It’s more jaded, certainly. You can hear the tired sigh, the burden of having said something that people put on bumper stickers. But it also indicates a sort of populist quality, like everyone can get in on this fame and fortune thing and everyone has a story to tell. In that spirit, we present you with our final issue of the year. In Fifteen Minutes everybody is famous. It’s a yearbook of sorts, which goes appropriately with the whole quotation thing...
...further expansion, Menino furiously denounced Harvard for launching “a full-scale attack” on Boston, and doing so with “the highest level of arrogance seen in our city in many years.” In June, fearful of the popular (and populist) mayor turning up the rhetoric again, Alan Stone, Harvard’s vice president of government, community and public affairs, scrambled to say, “We’ll work hard at our relationship with the mayor, we’ll work very hard.” This latest project...