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...Democratic penchant for sidestepping military matters makes Kerry’s all-out focus on his Vietnam record all the more interesting. Only a year ago, in the midst of Howard Dean’s fifteen minutes of fame, the likelihood that the eventual Democratic presidential nominee would be a decorated soldier seemed remote. Indeed, the spectacle of tens of thousands of passionate leftist Democrats cheering someone’s Vietnam service as “noble” seemed a sight about as likely as Dick Cheney attending a MoveOn.org block party. One is tempted to ask people when...
...Labor may be helped, of course, if Howard's decision to follow the U.S. into Iraq last year draws greater public anger or regret now. Between the bombing and their televised debate on Sept. 12, both Latham and the Prime Minister, who is shooting for his fourth straight election victory, demurred on that issue, saying it wasn't the time for political jousting. But even when issues closer to home, like interest rates and Medicare, reassert themselves in coming days, says pollster Gary Morgan, the Jakarta embassy attack will reverberate through the electorate more loudly even than the Bali massacre...
...Howard and Latham speak often about the future and ten-year plans. But their obsession is with the present. In truth, there is a great deal left to do. Too often, the government has chosen the low, quiet road to reform; the Opposition has trimmed its radical urges in hopes of creeping back into power. The tax system remains a mess; it's neither fair nor simple nor good for the economy. Investment in the future is miserly. Students should be getting better teaching and facilities for their $A100,000 university degrees. The spread of broadband - which will...
...Before the bombing, says Sol Lebovic, managing director of Newspoll, national security ranked third as an issue behind education and health. It hadn't been prominent in the news or the national conversation. But it was an issue on which Prime Minister John Howard seemed to have the ascendancy. In June, when asked whether Howard's Liberal-National government or Latham's Labor opposition could better protect the country, 50% of voters polled favored the Coalition and 26% Labor. When he was elected Opposition leader last December, Latham trailed the P.M. on that question 21% to 58%. A few days...
...find impossible to avoid. "The political argument will come back to that: Have you changed your mind about the troops? What about Spain?" Labor has long argued that having troops in Iraq has made Australia more of a target and damaged regional goodwill and cooperation against terrorism. Howard has painted Labor's plan as a cop-out in a necessary war, though his deputy, National Party leader John Anderson, said Australia "could be" more of a target because it was in Iraq...