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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (35218)3/5/2007 11:00:18 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541927
 
Alter's article is terrific.

Great lines.

It's a group activity, which means that the next commander in chief will need a Tom Sawyer-like skill in getting other kids in the global neighborhood to paint the fence.

Why would voters want to replace a my-way-or-the-highway Texan with a shut-up-and-listen New Yorker?

I had forgotten this one but it will all come out in the primaries and the generals.

But Rudy was often petulant and polarizing. To give just one example (minor in itself, but revealing): he broke diplomatic relations with the Manhattan borough president, Virginia Fields, because she dared to criticize him. (Giuliani was feuding with Harlem politicians at the time.) When, amid a racial crisis in the city, I went to Gracie Mansion to ask him how he could refuse to speak for more than two years to the highest-ranking African-American in town, he scoffed that there was no point.
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