04/26/05

Russ Feingold is running for president. Not officially, not formally, but he is running. ... To begin to compete with more prominent and politically connected contenders for the Democratic nomination in 2008, Feingold will need to find new ground on which to stand. He will need to excite the imaginations not just of the circle of liberal Democrats who have already been excited by his anti-war and anti-corporate votes. To do that, he needs to go to his place of greatest strength: the memory of his lonely vote against the Patriot Act. That vote, in the fall of 2001, was supposed to spell his political doom. Instead, it marked Feingold as the most courageous and consistent defender of the Bill of Rights. It is from that position that he should run for the presidency...

http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=37468&ntpid=2

from Capital Times, by John Nichols


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp