Handicapping bama-McCain
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- Handicapping bama-McCain
- Ireland holds historic referendum that could derail EU treaty
- Geroge Will’s ‘ne Man’s America’
Handicapping bama-McCain
Hartford Courant – Jun 12, 2008
” In doing so he’s gone where the party is but where many of its politicians fear to tread. Meanwhile his domestic policy is mainstream liberal crafted in a way that it neither offends the left (save for his not-really universal healthcare plan) nor unsettles the center. McCain by contrast represents mainly the wing of the. n other issues he’s been for the right unreliable at best. A cautious foreign policy realist in the 1980s he emerged as a leading neoconservative in the ’90s. Voting analyses placed him as relatively moderate in 2001 and ‘02 when he was enraged at the Republican Party that had rejected him but saw him snap back to relative down-the-line conservatism after 2004 when he began seeking the presidential nomination.
Ireland holds historic referendum that could derail EU treaty
cbc.ca – Jun 12, 2008
“It’s going to be close there’s no doubt” said Cyprian Brady a politician with Ireland’s Republican Party who has been going door-to-door in Dublin urging voters to accept the treaty. “I feel myself personally that the “Yes” will swing it but it’s definitely going to be close. ” Some fear sovereignty loss The Republican Party which is the leading party in the ruling government coalition supports the treaty as do other main political parties but many in the general population aren’t convinced says Raj Chari a Canadian who directs the Centre for European Studies at Trinity College in Dublin. pponents fear the treaty would rob Ireland of its sovereignty and allow the European Union to overrule Ireland’s own government on sensitive issues such as the country’s strict abortion laws or its long-held position of military neutrality. “Walking around Dublin you see lots of signs that say ‘Don’t let them bully you into this’” Chari said. The treaty a complicated 300-page legal document that has left some Irish voters confused replaces a more ambitious draft constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005. Caroline Simons with the anti-treaty group called Libertas hopes Irish people will turn their backs at the treaty.
Geroge Will’s ‘ne Man’s America’
International Herald Tribune – Jun 12, 2008
” Will's distaste then for presidential overreaching – he was also among the first on the right to denounce Watergate – is hardly new. He believes in that quaint document known as the Constitution which sets firm limits on presidential power abroad that have been routinely flouted by presidents since the onset of the Cold War. Some of Will's most acidulous passages therefore center on the Republican Party's exaltation of military power as the prescription for curing America's foreign policy woes. He traces the rot back to Theodore Roosevelt who lamented that Americans lacked “the stomach for empire” and said “I don't think that any harm comes from the concentration of power in one man's hands. ” This militancy Will writes set a perilous example for today's Republicans. Will points out that veneration for Roosevelt fostered by among others William Kristol and David Brooks the advocates or more precisely concocters of “national greatness” conservatism is antithetical to the ideal of limited government. Will believes the very opposite.
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