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Conventional Change

By Ruth Conniff, The Progressive. Posted August 16, 2004.


"The Democrats are not poised to address long-term problems like the War Powers Act, or the drift from democracy to empire. For almost everyone under their big tent, beating Bush is the only issue."

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