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To: JohnM who wrote (1285)	5/20/2003 11:43:58 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793914

It's one of those things that surveys have a difficult time measuring. There is no doubt that the Blacks and Latinos are in same situation that the Southern Democrats were in the 50s. They are much more socially conservative than the white wing of the party. This split between the party leadership and minority voters is also making itself evident on Vouchers. The highest percentage of support for vouchers is among the Blacks. Latest number I saw was 62%. But the Leadership is adamantly against vouchers. Why? The Teachers Unions are the number one support group of the Democrats. This is another issue that peels away some black voters. The recent change of heart by the DC Mayor on this issue was a big surprise. If the Congressional Republicans are smart, they will jump at the chance to put vouchers into the DC school system. DC has one of the highest per-captia expenditures on students, and is one of the worst school systems in the country.

To: JohnM who wrote (1285)	5/21/2003 7:56:54 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793914

John and I may be the only two here following Sid. But the reviews of his book gets more and more heated. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - Sid Blumenthal's personality problem. By Timothy Noah - SLATE Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 3:31 PM PT Of the many delusions plaguing the right throughout the Clinton impeachment crisis, none was more peculiar than its belief that Sidney Blumenthal, a political journalist turned White House aide, stood at the white-hot center of the Clinton cabal. In truth, Blumenthal was a somewhat peripheral figure in the Clinton White House. One of roughly two dozen "assistants to the president," Blumenthal was Clinton's big-ideas man, the guy who got whisked into the Oval Office whenever the president wanted to consider his place in the cosmos. Blumenthal's principal task was to organize a series of conferences on the "Third Way," wherein marquee intellectuals and leaders from various countries gathered at swell places like Harold Acton's Tuscan Villa La Pietra to steer the course of history, as the cliché goes, past the Scylla of collectivism and the Charybdis of market fundamentalism. Perhaps the only sincere compliment I can pay Clinton's successor, George W. Bush, is that he doesn't go in for this sort of gum-beating. REST AT:http://slate.msn.com/id/2083280/ Insidious Sid - Sid Blumenthal rearranges facts and besmirches the character of his fellow journalists. And he wonders why people dislike him. By Michael Isikoff - SLATE Posted Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 3:53 PM PT In the fall of 1998, just as the House impeachment hearings on Clinton were gearing up, White House aide Sidney Blumenthal was contacted by Jeffrey Toobin, a former colleague from The New Yorker. Toobin was trolling for sexual dirt on House Judiciary Committee chair Henry Hyde. As it happened, Blumenthal didn't have much. But he confided that his mother had once worked in a secretarial pool in Chicago in the 1940s, and Hyde, then a Chicago area lawyer, had had a "reputation", apparently, all the women had "avoided his office." The details of this "reputation" didn't become known until a few weeks later when another friend of Blumenthal's, at Salon, broke the news that 31 years earlier the Illinois congressman had had an extramarital affair with a furniture salesman's wife. This unintentionally revealing anecdote is buried deep inside Blumenthal's 822-page bloated opus, The Clinton Wars. Curiously enough, it seems to have been included because the author somehow thought it would exonerate him: Soon after the Salon story was published, Republicans in Congress accused Blumenthal of leaking it from the White House. No such thing was true, Blumenthal protests; the charge is just one more example of the recklessness of Bill Clinton's enemies and their determination to "demonize" him. REST AT:http://slate.msn.com/id/2083259/