[lbo-talk] the hunger for consensus

[Doug Henwood]

One of those awful passages which explain why David Broder is 
considered the "dean" of American political reporting 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/01/AR2006030101934_pf.html>:

"But what about Hillary Rodham Clinton? She leads all the early polls 
for the Democratic nomination. But can she avoid being seen simply as 
a battle-scarred veteran of the partisan Washington wars? Is there 
anything in her record that speaks to the hunger for consensus?"