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...Fear is precisely what we do not need. The Bush Administration exploited fear to justify its irrational attack on Iraq when in fact al-Qaeda was hiding elsewhere. Americans are intelligent enough to know we are facing a threat. A successful response must not be distorted by base emotions of insecurity, anger or revenge. We have the wisdom and the strength to overcome our enemies. We cannot afford fear. Roland S. Fredericks Marietta...
...probably will not win until John McCain finishes his term in 2016) are that the Democrats running for national office, and the machinery that supports them, rely more on blatant focus group pandering than a coherent, marketable ideology and, even more lamentably, they do not take care of their base...
...want to address the latter point here. Republicans simply take care of their base, respect them and value their contributions. Bush speaks proudly of being an evangelical Christian and appoints others to high office, like the recently-resigned John Ashcroft, who use their positions of authority to carry out an agenda that is highly favorable to the issues that evangelicals hold dear. Regardless of the logic or morality of this behavior, you cannot deny that this is a productive and visible way of reaching out to and securing a political base...
...other hand, Democrats have treted black voters like an embarrassing stepchild. Despite turning out over 85 percent of their vote for such American heroes as Walter Mondale, black voters get nowhere near the gushing policy love from Democrats that the Republican base gets from their party. And to be fair, this is not even entirely the Democrats’ fault. Black voters have honestly allowed their votes to be given away like free iPods. Every election season, a parade of proven vote pimps roll through black churches to recite Hallmark card versions of Martin Luther King speeches and promise that...
Though he graduated three years ago, Baker still appreciates his days on the Harvard athletic fields. “The base I built up in college has helped my training since I graduated,” he says. But that being said, Baker admits that “it’s a totally different thing racing 26 miles...