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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (464)	2/1/2004 12:43:29 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 81568

Populism Redux Sunday, February 1, 2004; Page B06 CLOSE YOUR EYES and listen to the Democratic presidential candidates, and you might think it's the 2000 campaign all over again. "They're for the powerful and we're for the people," Vice President Al Gore said in his convention speech, pointing to "big tobacco, big oil, the big polluters, the pharmaceutical companies, the HMOs." Flash forward to John Kerry's New Hampshire victory speech: "I have a message for the influence peddlers, for the polluters, the HMOs, the big drug companies that get in the way, the big oil and the special interests who now call the White House their home. We're coming, you're going, and don't let the door hit you on the way out." The mantle of populist outsider rests as uneasily on Mr. Kerry as it did on Mr. Gore: Both are sons of privilege who spent their careers in the corridors of power. On the campaign trail, Mr. Kerry says he wants to "free our government from the dominance of the lobbyists," yet his campaign war chest is filled with more lobbyist cash than the treasuries of his rivals. But the real issue has to do with substance, not biography. A campaign that descends to primitive business-bashing does not reflect well on any candidate.