[Peace-discuss] The "liberal" alternative...

[C. G. Estabrook]

FROM TODAY'S NYT:

Declaring that he is "not a redistribution Democrat," Senator John Kerry
told a group of wealthy and well-connected supporters on Thursday that he
would soon start an aggressive campaign to define himself as a centrist,
in hopes of peeling moderate Republicans from President Bush.

Tacitly acknowledging his vulnerability to harsh portrayals in a barrage
of Mr. Bush's advertisements over the past month, Mr. Kerry urged
Democrats at a $25,000-a-plate breakfast at the "21" Club in Manhattan to
help him paint his own portrait...