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We the Government o 74470 77966 "[Clinton] used the book 0 explain his career as he actually saw it, with II the sentimentality, anger; affection, frustration, pride, and at times relentless self~exa~ninatjon that make up his elusive character.' PAGE 61 CDllte.ts E 3 PROSPECTS America Reinvents 4 CORRE:SPONDENCE DISPATCHES 6 DEVIL IN THE DETAILS 11 THINK DIFFERENT By Sarah Wildman How weH do you know John Edwards?; succession skirmish Teresa Heinz Kerry is not your typical poltswife. in Massachusetts; Billionaires for Bush; plus Tonl Tomorrow 13 THE NEXT CENERATION By Garance Franke- uta Young bfack leaders, led by Barack Obama, have big plans. C LU'MNS 16 ONWARD AND FORWARD By Tara MCKe,veyl Does Moveon..org rear.,y deserve all that attentio. ?Well, yes. 72 THE LAST WORD AFailure of Intelligence 18 "THE EVIL WAS VERY CRAVE ... "By Francis oColdman By Robe rt B8 Reich Surprisingly contemporary notes on the election t1884. FEAT1URES FEATURES 1 20 THE KERRY I KNOW By Thomas Oliphant 55 PROMISI!S, PROMISES Bush's go-it-alone AIDS strategy is hurting more than it's helping. The. candid.ate faces a tough grind-W.. hich is just \' hat he likes. By Erika Casriel 24 CLIMBINC THE HILL By Harold ,Meyerson Could a President Kerry handle Congress? Yes, prob1ably. 58 FOLLOW THE (SAUDI) MONEY Howa small Ca mbodian village got caught up in the war on terrorism. 27 THE POWER OF THE PEN By Clay Risen By NoyThrupkaew How presidents face down obstinate Congresses 62 liFE AFTE:R THEORY 30 A NEW PROCRESSIVE ERA? The theory vogue is over in the humanities. But what comes next? Seventeen thinkers and advocates answer the que tion: If you By Mark Greif had 15 minutes with President Kerry, what would y u tell him? By Robert Kuttner, Jan SchakQwsky, James Mac· Iregor Burns, Deborah Tannen, Chellie Pingree, Christopher Jr~, o Ed·'ey o Z Zbigniew Brzezinski, Steve Fraser, Paul Starr,JoHn Podesta, E.J. Graff', Sean Wilentz, Deb Callahan, AShl.ey BeIJ, Robert S. 0­ 67 BOOKS ::J Mcintyre, Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren ~agi Alan Brinkl'ey on Bill Clinton's sprawHng, ungainly, and mostly right 'My Life; La~,rente H.Fuchs otlSamuelP. Huntington's sprawling, 46 LYNDON AGONISTE'S By Richard Byrne \ ungainly, and mostly wrong Who Are We? History has not been kind to LBJ. Sometimes, history lis wrong. 51 THE TALKING CURE By Laura Secor I Kerry would fight terrorism with diplomacy. Would t~at succeed? COVER Couerdesign by Point Five Design The Amencan Prospect (155r'11049<128'5) IS ~)U ol,-shed mOfl,thlvl)y n,e /\liilerica n Prosp(::ct Inc ::1000 LStreet, NV\I, SUite 717 >'\' d:'>' "I' '"t:llu'll, Li~. "20036 (editoPi) I eniiCe) find 13 Beacon Silreet, Su it.e 11J.O, 8cIsto n ,'vlA o'2~o8 (bu 51 nes~; offi;ce) Inc. The ,I'.,merican Prospect ':C' IS 21 registered tr21dernark ofThe /\,r-ne:-ican Prospect, inc Postrnaster· Ple,l';e sel',[1 Juldn'ss clianp,es to TI'e !\rncrican Plmspe~ct fJ.LJ l:iO)r bDl., IV1LlvIOi'!·I$.IL6105k7S:31. Printe(j in trle UlilitJccl St,)1'e<;. AI! afe Uir opinion of th{' author and not necessar"ily those of The /Hnerlcon Prospect America Reinvents rrl1illkback to last SLlll1111er. George W. BLISll'S af)lJrOval ratil.1gs stood 11ear 60 ercell.t~ Iraq, a "mission" the president had famously declared "accomplished" abdard the ~0litica1 USS Abraham Lincoln that l\Aay, was no paradise, but it was a150not yet the disaster It later became, J\\arti, the uncanny relevance to today of thl whisker' l1en10cratic cand idatf~s, portrayed by the 111ed ia as close P lectlon of 1884; and Richard Byrne Idel ivers a knock knred Barney Fifes, dravvlng stra\lvs to detcrnline provocative rpthinking and defense of Lyndon Baines which on,~ would face the unhappy chore of headlllg 0111' Johnson. arguing that the IO\~ .esteem il.' 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()ne of those candidates, a sen l\nd the future: Thonlas Oliphant, the journ llist \,vho's ator from Massachusetts, seemed so distant a contendf'r known Kerry longer and better than any other in IArnerica... ~ that the obI igatory paragraph devoted to hinl in a round- indeed, vvha vvas at Kt~rry's side as the veteran deilivered his up story invariably \,vent SOlllething like this one) fron1 farnous anti-\var testllll0ny before the Senat\e Foreign The Netv }'ork 'Tirnes: "Senator John Kerry Relations COnl111ittee in 1971-~xplains as of Massachusetts had a second difficult A Bush only he could how Kerry got tOJhiS point, ~i~~i~:~ I';:::~ ~:r~i~~()~t ~ (c~:~~~~;:t ijC f~:~~~l:~ ;~l~di ~'1 ::~~:(~:~ ~~~p~~t ~;.~~ l~'~ b~I:I::~e~~~ n ~ CarolIna in May, he struggled vvith a and iTIOVement \vonder, as t'Iarold l\Aeyerson, (lay Risen, hoarse, scratchy voice, a distraction fron1 and Laura SeeDl,' do, how a Pre..,sic .~.~nt Kerry seemed invincible.. ~ . vvhat his HI.des had hoped vvould be a (0111- vvould, respectIvely, deal WIth jLOngress, H 111anding perfOrtl1ance. hat a difference use e_x~c.utive po"v~r., and.. fl. ght the war 011 What a difference a year rnakes. terrOrlSt11? We think not. J\n( vve have The canlpaign~relatedarticles and es asked a group of distinguished thinkers says in thi~; special Issue of 'The J\rnerlcan a year and advocates~-includin.g]Ohr1 Podesta, Prospect r,ptlect the changes of the past Sean WiIentz) Deborah 'T'annen, Zbignie\rv year. 'The optin1istll nO\\I prevalent in progressive circles Brzel'illski, Janles Iv\acGregor Burns,]an Schako vsky, and stems not on[y--or even chiefly~-from President. Bush's Christopher Edley,--how they would advise a ~resident recent bad fortune. f\fter alL such is the ineluctable power Kerry to reinvigorate progressive values in tIle public of the office that some of hlS bad fortul1£' is also thp s__.p.hr.rc,Thesp.eCl.l.. la.tion.c..ons~it.ut .. esne._-.jthP.-~l~~.Jredlctionnor. \V0 rId's, and \tve don't \,vish that a parad () xi cal and h 0 11 0 vv end0 rse 111 en t; rather, I t retleet sagr 0 \tv 1ng s4n sethat optilnisl11 that vvould be. /\nlPrica rnight be ready again, after four yeaf4 s during Rat her, 1t stenlS also fr01l1 a grovvl ng sense t hat "V_Il.. 1C.hcla}.!.~v.as ca.I.. le.C.lnig.. 'ht and a.,nyo.ne \Vt~O Objec~.t(.:~d to tl.1e Anlericans are vvorked up, and that they're vvorked up in redesignatlon vvas d Isnllssed as frivolous (or war. e), for ae-· defense of S0111e old values·,e_-honest governnlcnc polley tuat Ideas, 8gendas, and~1110st of all~~~evidence.1 nlaking based on fact rather than ideological assertIon, a Strange things have happened to thiS country these pubIle sector that is the private sector's counter\rvpight blst fOll r years. f\ great national tragedy, one that: affected rat her than Its handnlaIden~~that had seen1ed for a tinle us all (lnd took no note of n1attprs like party idenJitlcation, to have fallen out: of favor. '1 hIS issue of the Prospect is vva.s first_ (1.. .. ~.11.. 1ro. PrJ_(.l_.te,.d fo~~r r.).art~i...S.'.~._.m .(."l.ld.~ h..•en.~.~.a.-.. t~_'.~~.1:tl(~).1.11. p.' and about the possibilIty of a np\v progresslvlsnl, and the latel u')pd as Just1hcatllHl tor an act of' aggrpssl<_ n \rvhose n10vpnlPn ts tha t: sustEu 1'1 It (see C;ara nce franke Ruta IS IO:~lc led to a scandaL I\bu Ghraib, that has brOUglj tour na"' pleep on the !levv genpratlon of J\fncan Anlf'rlCan leader tlon unquHIIfled dIsgrace. But l\nlerlca alvvaY)'f\thinks, ship, arId '[';:lra L\'\cKelvpy's on the endlessly IllvcntlvP pxoup renlvc'nts; l'pnC'\vs. 1'hlS Issue is about rethInkIng, rein·­ 1\;\0 ve()n.0 n~). It roots ar() II n cl i nthP past for clu e S d bOll t Vp n lIon, and r c n ('vva LIn 0 ther \,y ell d ~ ~ 1t 's abo u t the hCJ\v \eve ~~D t \Nherp \rve a ff'. fh e ace] ai lnec1 novelIst !\ tTlf1rHa that has been -~and can be. rr~H1C1SCO Coldn1an ')ho\tv:, us, the eyf';;; of Jos6 --·1\\ I C H/\}-· f r )/\'\1\5 KY THE f\MfR!CiN PROSPECT' has begun to mobilize this election year in a continuing cam­ must be outcomes, products, real change. These are what t paign to enact a progressive agenda. great force Kerry has mobilized will want and can crucial When Kerry is elected, some will say that Bush's firm ad­ help supply. As an organization Democrat, I have work{ heren~e to principles led to the incumbent's defeat, that with grass-roots people for decades, but I have never se( progressives need a cautious approach to change. But Bush such a mobilization ofthe liberal potential--independents has failed, not b.ecause of the way he pursued his vision, but well as turned-offDemocrats and an amazing number of dJ because the vision itself is flawed.
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