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...good news for the Thompson campaign, which may find itself placing third because it upsets the party's base the least. While McCain spoke Thursday morning, Thompson did interviews with talk radio hosts who had gathered in Des Moines at the behest of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that supports a crackdown on illegal immigration. His new position on the issue is a substantial shift from last year, when Thompson said in a Fox News interview that it was not realistic to expel the roughly 12 million illegal immigrants who are here. "You're going to have...
...populist rhetoric is only rarely matched with progressive proposals. He supports continuing President Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans in the short term, and advocates the so-called Fair Tax, which would replace the progressive income tax with a more regressive national sales tax. His major education reform would not be more federal spending on teachers or preschool, but more arts education, stricter teacher testing and a new federal push for home schooling or charter schools. When he speaks of health care, he talks not of new federal benefits, but of more focus on prevention for chronic disease...
...that perceived immodesty a problem - particularly in a French President who likes to cast himself as "the American" leader unafraid of adopting the dynamic aspects of U.S. society he feels France needs? First off, because even as it follows Sarkozy's lead to reform elsewhere, much of French society still remains unwilling to drop the traditional attitudes that frown upon the flaunting of wealth, and which divide the celebrity of showbiz and the recognition of political leadership in separate categories. Sarkozy may well express his admiration for the career trajectory of Arnold Schwarzenegger, but French voters take politics too seriously...
...French public that had been watching Sarkozy take a prolonged bashing over his hosting incorrigible Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. And it was déjà vu when he announced his long-anticipated divorce on the same day he faced the first massive strikes to protest his reform program. Indeed, given that strategy of using hype and glitter to escape from political hardball, why would Sarkozy even be tempted to distance himself from the professionals of that trade: the very celebrities he calls friends...
...tend to be efficient. I think the private sector, by its nature, is going to be more flexible, more efficient, more creative. But there's an important role for government to play. A good example of this is on the federal level was back in the '90s, when welfare reform was done as a bipartisan initiative. From the conservative perspective, there was an expectation that you should work, you should go get an education, you have responsibilities. But from a more liberal perspective, I think it was also fair to say that if you do those things then society will...