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Bill Curry on the Candidates

Date:
Sunday, January 21, 2007 5:52:42 AM

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Bill's the guy who should now be the CT governor had the brainless and
dickless wonders at the FBI investigated Curry's Sept '02 article in
the
Hartford Courant about what was going on with the DCF's top whore,
Kristine Ragaglia, and all the "runnin aroun" for the contracts at that
time.

What we need to end the partisanship is for the Republicans to make
restitution for their slovenly and cowardly ways, and for the country
to unite
against Bush. 9/11 was orchestrated by BushCo and the neocons.

Politicians will never again regain our respect until they start saying
the T words- Thermate and Treason.

Clinton would be a disaster because she won't offend her Jewish
constituents
to do the right thing. Dodd is a disaster of spinelesness and
incompetence.
If it is going to be a Democrat it should be Howard Dean, because *no
one*
openly
gave it to the bastards like Dean. This is what we need.

A leader; a man who calls bullshit bullshit.

A man who calls a lying fool a lying fool.

KMDickson
ActionLyme.org


courant.com
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/columnists/hc-curry0121.artjan21,0,7304693.c
olumn?coll=hc-utility-home


All A Candidate Really Needs Is A Good Idea

Bill Curry

January 21 2007

`Today our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in
a
practical, common-sense way. Politics has become so bitter and partisan
...
that's what we have to change first."

Sound like anyone you know? If you guessed Joe Lieberman, nice try, but
no
cigar. It's from Barack Obama's campaign website, where it appears as
part of "A
Message from Barack."

All politicians promise to shatter old categories and heal old wounds.
Bush was
a compassionate conservative. Clinton had a third way. Nixon, of all
people,
vowed "to bring us together." Such rhetoric fosters a sense of unity
while
signaling that the guy talking isn't like all the others. Once in a
great while,
he isn't.

This presidential race is shattering some old categories. Who'd have
guessed that the early Republican leaders- John McCain, Rudy Giuliani,
Mitt Romney- would
be so unattractive to the party's right wing? (McCain and Romney are
doing all
they can to rectify that.) Who foresaw the bloody battle brewing among
Democrats?

Loyal dogs that they are, most Republicans say they support Bush's war,
yet
McCain's support of it drives his numbers down within his party.
Democrats once
thought it didn't matter who they chose because no one could beat him.
They're
starting to think it doesn't matter because anyone can, a dangerous,
albeit
liberating, analysis.

Both parties harbor deep doubt about the electability of their
front-runners.
Democrats' doubts are personal: Barack's inexperience, the legions of
Hillary
haters. Republicans have a deeper worry: that their party may have
grown so
insular and extreme it is incapable of nominating a winner.

Republicans love to be called conservatives. Democrats hate to be
called
liberals. Many Democrats worry that the public mostly agrees with
Republicans and that to win they must sneak their agenda past it. That
fear makes them
especially prone to the rhetoric of reconciliation.

America wants a politics driven less by personality and ideology and
more by
practicality. Like Lieberman, McCain follows the old Republican path of
global
belligerence and cultural conservatism. Like Lieberman, he may follow
it right
out of the primaries.

We want a leader who can bring us together, but also one with a
concrete plan to
deal with urgent issues including Iraq, health care, the budget and the

environment. All are issues on which Bush has failed miserably. A
candidate
closely identified with him won't last long. One who knows how to
provide health
care and get our troops home can go far. Is Obama the one?

Obama came here to rally Democrats last spring and said that, as a
freshman
senator, he chose Lieberman as his mentor. It may have been just
senatorial
courtesy; Lieberman was right by the dais; the anti-Lieberman
protesters, just
outside in the parking lot. He had the audience convinced he meant it,
but the good ones always do that.

Obama responded uncertainly to Bush's Iraq speech. He didn't sink as
low as Joe
Biden's nonsense about the Constitution prohibiting congressional
action, but he
did echo Leon Panetta's lame notion that "the system" made acting
virtually
impossible. To be fair, he came around fast. After Chris Dodd proposed
capping
the number of troops, Obama and Hillary Clinton embraced the idea as if
it were
their own.

On health care, every Democrat is for "universal health care" or
"universal
access." The problem is that these aren't plans or concepts, but more
like prom
themes; "Calypso under the Sea," "Seniors Forever," "Universal Access."
The
first Democrat to get real about health care will be amply rewarded.

Obama talks a lot about getting over the '60s. If he means the culture
wars he
should call Karl Rove; keeping them alive is a Republican cottage
industry.
Everybody else has already moved on. The fight now is over Iraq, not
Vietnam. He should move on before people start seeing his analysis as
mere positioning.

Obama is one of the smartest people to seek the presidency in modern
times. He's
as handsome as Jack Kennedy and as smooth as two fingers of bourbon.
Lucid and
unafraid of revealing himself, he is also a superb writer. In many
respects, his
election as president would be the first good news America has gotten
about
itself in some time.

Yet it isn't enough. Democrats should choose their next standard-bearer
based on
what he or she has written on their standard. Want to bring us all
together?
Take a big problem and show us how to fix it.

Bill Curry, former counselor to President Bill Clinton, was the
Democratic
nominee for governor twice. His column appears Sundays on the Other
Opinion
page. He can be reached at billc...@gmail.com.

Copyright 2007, Hartford Courant

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