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...tried to subvert one of our freshman year parties into a UC election stump speech,” says Pawel A. Swiatek ’99, O’Mary’s longtime college roommate. “Halfway through he started talking to people about running...
...spontaneity and dialogue that make debates so important to presidential elections causes enormous anxiety for the candidates themselves. So much hinges on events they cannot control—unlike the stump speeches and sound bites that dominate the rest of the campaign. Over the past few election cycles—in part because of the candidates’ discomfort-—the American people have had to sit by as debates get increasingly dumbed-down. Gradually voters have lost the valuable discourse debates once provided, and have gotten in its place rehearsed stump speeches in a slightly different format...
...Iraq would require 500,000 troops. That might well be what it would take in Iraq, but the U.S. has almost nowhere to turn for more manpower. Further internationalizing the military presence, the panacea offered by, among others, Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry, may sound good on the stump, but no U.S. ally intends to commit significant forces to a widening conflict--not while the CPA is in charge. Politically, the more pressing task is to keep allied troops in Iraq from bugging out. Even if most stay, U.S. military officials complain that the other foreign troops in Iraq...
...campaign, when all impressions about the challenger are new, to convince voters that John Kerry is an opportunist tethered to no core beliefs, a serial side switcher on everything from the war to gas taxes to gay marriage. "Indecision kills," says Vice President Dick Cheney in his stump speech, with characteristic subtlety. "These are not times for leaders who shift with the political winds, saying one thing one day and another thing the next." The President himself has leveled the charge, though more lightly than Cheney does, more mocking than warning. "My opponent clearly has strong beliefs," George Bush says...
...earned Raffarin a personal rebuke: voters in his conservative-controlled home region of Poitou-Charentes massively backed a leftist list - headed by Ségolène Royal, Socialist leader François Hollande's partner. After initially looking stunned by the results, Raffarin rebounded with some defiant stump speeches meant to get across the message that reform is vital - and will continue. That message isn't going over very well. While the French have felt the sting of modest labor reform (some employees must work longer before full pensions kick in; one public holiday was eliminated to help finance...