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Article: DEMOCRATS HOPE A BUZZWORD WILL LEAVE BUSH SMARTINGSUBTLE AND PROVOCATIVE, `WISDOM' IS ALL THE RAGE AMONG DNC SPEAKERS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2004
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If John Kerry seems leery of the L word, seeking to avoid being
saddled with the "liberal" label that helped doom the presidential
candidacies of fellow Bay Staters Ted Kennedy and Mike Dukakis, he
appears to have no problem with the W word. It has nothing to do
with President Bush's middle initial. The word is "wisdom," and it is
getting a workout at this week's Democratic National Convention,
along with its musclebound wingman, the word "strength."
Speaker after speaker, from former President Bill Clinton to
former Vice President Al Gore, has extolled Kerry's wisdom. It's
enough to make you wonder whether the Democrats are nominating
Socrates rather than the junior senator from ...