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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (1899)4/15/2004 2:43:30 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Sanger's Anger
Plus Nagourney's breakthrough.
By Mickey Kaus
Posted Monday, April 12, 2004, at 11:00 PM PT

The Democrats' Big Problem--Hint: It's not the Globe! <font size=4>Chatterbox's Tim Noah sure took a while--until the last paragraph of his Tuesday piece--to acknowledge that maybe the reason the Boston Globe doesn't like John Kerry is that he's ...well, not likable!<font size=3> I refer readers to the more robust and prominent to-be-sure paragraph in Chatterbox's earlier effort, published before Kerry became the sole, shaky vessel of Democrats' hopes and dreams:
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By Chatterbox's rough estimate, at least three-quarters of Kerry's Globe problem is attributable to his own behavior. "He's a stiff and a phony," Globe columnist Alex Beam told Chatterbox. "Stuff sticks to him because it's true." Beam isn't wrong. The rap against Kerry—that he's a snob, that he's an opportunist, that he approaches facts with a Clintonesque slipperiness—is grounded in persuasive evidence.

Suggestion for Democrats: A long, slow, fact-finding trip around the world. Their nominee could be photographed smiling in a statesmanlike manner with various world leaders (who would not endorse him!) while his cause at home was taken up by more effective surrogates. ...
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