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...presidential pratfall automatically becomes a big issue, especially when six candidates in the two parties are gunning for the job. Democratic trade moderates could suddenly sound tough by attacking Bush's performance in Japan without embracing strident protectionism. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton needles the President: "When the Japanese Prime Minister said that he felt sympathy for the U.S., it made me sick. If I'd been there with him, I'd have thrown...
...suit. And then there is Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, whose embodiment of Rooseveltian notions of government intervention should command liberal loyalties. Instead Harkin is watching helplessly as crucial elements of what should be his core constituency, the country's leading white-collar union leaders, conclude that he is too strident and too liberal to appeal broadly in a general election. "Harkin sounds wonderful," says Lenore Miller, the head of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, who has signed on with Clinton. "But it's all too parochial...
However, Gomes says that he felt morally obligated to come forward because "firstly, religion was used in such a strident and perverse way to orchestrate an attack against homosexuality, and, secondly, there were so many students who were hurt by this, grievously wounded. I would hope that I would have the courage to speak out whatever happened...
Racial tactics can backfire if they are ill-timed or overly strident. Many white voters will abandon any candidate who they judge has crossed the line into blatant racism. Several top political aides, including the late Lee Atwater, counseled Bush to sign the civil rights bill passed by Congress last year, rather than make an issue of quotas so long before his next campaign. "Quotas are a legitimate issue," says one G.O.P. strategist, "but I thought it couldn't be sustained for 24 months without making a mistake. And ( when you make a mistake on this issue...
...answer, I can only say that I know that Peninsula will always be associated with orthodox or conservative Catholicism; that it will be thought of as the most strident Harvard voice in favor of conservative thought; and that I care about both these strains of thought and how they are perceived on this campus...