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Slavitt is well-respected, says local political pundit Robert Winters, who edits the Cambridge Civic Journal. “Not that he stands a chance in hell of winning in a place like Cambridge,” Winters adds...
...situation in Iraq after his vote authorizing President Bush to go to war. Kerry’s reply included a telling phrase: he said he and Congress had voted “to build a legitimate international coalition.” Kerry’s line prompted conservative pundit Andrew Sullivan to ask in The New Republic magazine, “Was the Clinton Kosovo war the product of an ‘illegitimate coalition’? Is Kerry now saying that only U.N.-sponsored coalitions are henceforth kosher? What signal does this send to those many countries...
Brian A. Sullivan claims that the Yard of yore isn’t so very different from Harvard today. And he’s right. The musing pontifications and perspicacious reflections of Francis Ellingwood Abbot make him the pundit du jour, relevant in his time and in our own. Word...
...Democratic primary campaign has produced one of the more depressing political phenomena in memory: the rise of the citizen pundit. With Howard Dean gone from the race, the last traces of passion--and, I fear, conviction--have been leached from the electorate. Instead of voters, we have handicappers. Ask a civilian why she likes Kerry or Edwards, and more often than not, you get dime-store Capital Gang: "Kerry can match up with Bush on national security," or "Edwards can win in the South." This is a form of pragmatism, I suppose. Democrats are desperate to beat George W. Bush...
Risking an unmanly show of feelings here, I must confess that I have a crush on Ann Coulter. Coulter is, of course, the political pundit infamous for saying things like this: “By the age of fourteen, you’re either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.” A refreshing alternative to left-wing comedian Al Franken ’73, she is also more audacious and outrageous than Franken—and that’s why I am smitten. Coulter chastises letter-writers...