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...rival. He's been on the road full-time for six months, targeted the first eight states in the primary schedule, and holds as many fund raisers each month as he did in the entire 1992 campaign. He is enjoying himself more than when he earned his party's scorn for challenging a sitting President. "Last time I was a vehicle to state George Bush was wrong," he says. "Now I've got a chance to lay out my ideas a full year ahead of time...
...liberals, looking for some internal incoherence as the root of their downfall, to re-examine their roots. Traditional constituencies, such as the "economic liberals" involved in unions and advocacy of entitlements, angrily blame activists for gay rights and affirmative action for alienating "Reagan Democrats." Meanwhile, these social liberals scorn economic progressives for advocating outdated, class-warfare rhetoric inapplicable to the technology-driven economy of the 21st century...
...based policies, from Jim Crow laws designed to oppress minorities to affirmative-action measures seeking to assist them, are conflated into one morally and legally pernicious whole. He delights in gratuitously tongue-lashing the majority of blacks who disagree with him on almost every civil rights issue. He heaps scorn on federal judges who have used the bench to enforce and expand civil rights, accusing them of a paternalistic belief in black inferiority. His harshest critics, like Wade Henderson, Washington director of the N.A.A.C.P., even speculate that "if Thomas had been on the court at the time, he would have...
...cult sensation--and got lots of girls--by drawing them as monuments to his awe and fear of women. They are mammoth fertility totems; they dare the cringing Crumb cartoon male to deify or defile them. In his work Crumb does both, which has earned him no end of scorn from people with protective sensibilities...
Saigon fell on April 30, 1975, but Vietnam is still with us. A politician's war record--or antiwar record--evokes scorn or approbation; the masterfully manipulative Forrest Gump makes adults weep; we fret over quagmires, and still we can hear the air torn by helicopter blades and see that canted, top-heavy map on the evening news and recall precisely our draft-lottery number or that of our brother or son. Some brothers and sons did not return; they are still with us as well...