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...liberal interest group, and answered questions from a panel of journalists. Such events--"cattle shows" is the term of art - are common in the early stages of presidential campaigns. Inevitably, they are exercises in diminution. The serious candidates are forced to share the stage with the likes of Al Sharpton, and then further insulted when Sharpton gets the best applause and biggest laughs from the crowd. (One waits for the moment when one of the other candidates - someone, please!--states the obvious: that Sharpton is not a "civil rights leader" but an offensive racial show-off who has no place...
What the hydra of the dissent movement needs most desperately is a single head. But with all the Democratic presidential candidates (except Howard Dean and Al Sharpton) backing the war, political leaders are hard to come by, as are mentors from the intellectual left. "People in the antiwar movement are making a giant, historic mistake," says Paul Berman, left-leaning author of Terror and Liberalism. "The argument for the war is one of solidarity with the oppressed. These ought to be the principles of the left. The people in the antiwar movement have fallen into confusion. They should be protesting...
...slogging along, ducking brickbats and trying to explain themselves. (Senator John Kerry, whom most of the candidates privately see as the front runner, was recuperating last week from prostate-cancer surgery.) There will be changes soon. An embarrassing swarm of newcomers--including a buffoon brigade, starring the Rev. Al Sharpton--seems likely to clog the stage in the coming weeks. But the biggest changes will be outside the candidates' control: this campaign, more than any other in recent memory, will be defined by events in the world. The looming war, the possibility of another terrorist attack, the hunt for Osama...
...slogging along, ducking brickbats and trying to explain themselves. (Senator John Kerry, whom most of the candidates privately see as the front runner, was recuperating last week from prostate-cancer surgery.) There will be changes soon. An embarrassing swarm of newcomers - including a buffoon brigade, starring the Rev. Al Sharpton - seems likely to clog the stage in the coming weeks. But the biggest changes will be outside the candidates' control: this campaign, more than any other in recent memory, will be defined by events in the world. The looming war, the possibility of another terrorist attack, the hunt for Osama...
...best thing that could be said about Kerry's speech on the emotional abortion issue was that it wasn't as flat as North Carolina Senator John Edwards'. The biggest crowd pleasers: Dean, with his bold defense of the procedure opponents call partial-birth abortion, and the Rev. Al Sharpton, who made the sassy declaration that the Christian right should meet "the right Christians...