In his Sept. 16 op-ed column, Solidarity Isn't Forever, ... breaking its promise to confine itself to economic issues and not inject itself into academic decision making, such as the assignment of teachers to particular courses.
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I would be a distraction--and the vacuum has been filled. That said, I plan to speak out and write some op-ed pieces, but no bus tour.
From reading between the lines on the story, it sounds like Rove was doing what he's advised candidates to do for years when under attack, push back. Joe Wilson hit the Bush administration and they struck back. What if Joe Wilson's wife worked at HUD and got Wilson a trip to Detroit, and then Wilson wrote an op-ed piece about how the Bush policies undercut the auto-industry. Ingrate, ... His wife got him that gig. And besides he got it all wrong about the auto industry.
I think of it as an adjunct to the daily newspaper. It's like part op-ed page, part wannabe newspaper.
You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.
Today's op-ed is nothing more than rhetoric. Senator Clinton can help establish common ground by taking action. A good first step would be to introduce legislation protecting the right to provide services and counseling to pregnant women seeking alternatives to abortion.
You don't make peace by writing a public relations article in the op-ed segment of The New York Times. You make peace by stopping terrorism. And a public relations campaign is no substitute for stopping terrorism, and Arafat for the past 16 months has not stopped the campaign of terrorists against our innocent civilians.
There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.
The more he talks about it, the more it brings the issue up. No matter what he writes, even if he wrote the best op-ed in the history of The New York Times, it would bring the issue back up.
Unless he can make a convincing case that his recent op-ed does not accurately reflect his views, I will oppose his nomination,
For his part, retired Gen. Tommy Franks, who has been speaking out as a Bush surrogate, has an op-ed piece in this morning's New York Times, accusing Kerry of distortions of history. ... The war against terrorism is the right war at the right time for the right reasons. And Iraq is one of the places that the war must be fought and won. George Bush has his eye on that ball, and Senator John Kerry does not.