An excellent op ed piece by Gloria Steinem in today's Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/opinion/08steinem.html
I remember presidential campaigns going back to 1952. That year
Eisenhower ran as an agent for change. Kennedy did in 1960, Nixon in
1968, Reagan in 1980 ("it's morning in America"), Clinton in 1992,
Bush in 1998. A mixed record, even for the sorry lot that US
presidents have been for the most part. Hillary's point is that
rhetoric is fine, but caveat emptor. It's the nuts and bolts, what
she calls prose, that gets the work done. She could also have said
what no politician is likely to say, that change will be limited and
incremental no matter who is president, because the constitution is a
very sad old horse, and there's no practical ways to change ponies.
Mark
At 04:28 PM 1/8/2008, you wrote:
>grim reading:
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>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/story/0,,2237363,00.html
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>On Jan 7, 2008 11:17 AM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Just encountered this formulation:
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> > At a raucous rally in a high school gymnasium in Nashua, Clinton skewered
> > Obama for several votes he has cast in the Senate, such as his vote in
> > favor of the Patriot Act and for energy legislation she described as "Dick
> > Cheney's energy bill." She never mentioned Obama's name but left no doubt
> > about whom she was discussing.
> >
> > "You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose," Clinton said.
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> > Barry Alpert
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>She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
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