My friend Jim Heffler has been listening to Air America Radio a lot. [It's fascinating stuff, but I can't process
as much of it as day as I'd be glued to, if it were on.] Although before the 2004 election Jim felt the democrats
were far from the interests of the people, he now thinks that the Air America speakers are purists, and that as
long as they stay so far left of the mainstream they will never have a say in the workings of US politics.
Bill and Hillary Clinton do have centrist tendencies, without which they probably wouldn't have made
it to the White House. It doesn't seem likely that Howard Dean would become more conciliatory. The
question, Jim says, is whether the democrats want to remain as critics on the outside. Any takers?
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