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David Broder

BRODER: The protest that became a people’s legendary dream 0 Comments Last Updated: 12:59 AM 08/29/10 - I did not stick around to see Glenn Beck’s extravaganza at the Lincoln Memorial, not out of protest but because I had work to do in Philadelphia. But I was more than satisfied by my memories of the earlier event at that site I’d covered for the old Washington Star, when the theme was civil rights and the speech of the day turned out to be the historic “I Have a Dream” oration by Martin Luther King Jr. (Full Story)

BRODER: Paging the real McCain 0 Comments Last Updated: 6:53 PM 08/26/10 - Now that John McCain has taken care of his political business in Arizona, it is time for him to return to Washington and the responsibilities he bears as a leader of the Republican Party and the nation. (Full Story)

BRODER: Voters facing bad choices at the polls 0 Comments Last Updated: 4:29 PM 08/19/10 - The Democrats seem determined to teach us the price of vacillation, while the Republicans are bent on instructing us on the rewards of obstruction. What a helluva choice awaits in the November election. (Full Story)

BRODER: Former Iowa governor Vilsack is a man of ideas 0 Comments Last Updated: 8:03 PM 08/14/10 - Over the years, reporters learn that there are a relative handful of the public officials with whom we deal who can be counted on to expand our understanding of events. These are the men and women who have probed deeply into the forces shaping the country — or their part of it — and often anticipate the challenges still to come. (Full Story)

BRODER: Cut costs, but not in my state Last Updated: 6:18 PM 08/12/10 - Meet Robert Gates, also known as The Leading Indicator. (Full Story)

BRODER: McConnell talks good bipartisanship before invoking 14th 0 Comments Last Updated: 3:30 PM 08/07/10 - It was an odd but intriguing experience to sit at a press breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor last week and listen as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell strongly rebutted one of my recent columns, implicitly endorsed the message of another and sent a disquieting signal about the prospects that might follow a Republican victory in the midterm elections. (Full Story)

BRODER: Senate needs an influx of good leaders 0 Comments Last Updated: 7:11 PM 08/05/10 - Earlier this week, as the United States Senate went through the motions of debating Elena Kagan’s nomination to a Supreme Court seat that became hers Thursday, readers of The New Yorker across the country could review journalist George Packer’s masterful article “The Empty Chamber,” tracing the decline and fall of that same Senate. (Full Story)

BRODER: For Obama, paging Howard Baker 0 Comments Last Updated: 4:50 PM 07/31/10 - Even as he steps up his campaigning and fundraising for Democratic candidates, President Barack Obama appears to be adjusting mentally and emotionally to the prospect that his post-election life will feature more dealings with Republicans. (Full Story)

BRODER: Delaware politics a lesson in civility 0 Comments Last Updated: 7:39 PM 07/29/10 - MIDDLETOWN, Del. — A lot of the mail I receive these days reads like this letter from a Milford, Utah, man, who says: “Truly, there is a lot of anger in the land, and one other thing that columnists like you appear to have missed or perhaps are ignoring. That thing is disgust with the obvious, deliberate refusal by elected officials to do their duty and actually represent the will of the people.” (Full Story)

BRODER: Gubernatorial, legislative races real barometers of election 0 Comments Last Updated: 1:43 AM 07/25/10 - In this high-stakes election of 2010, much attention naturally focuses on Republican efforts to come back in Congress and the Democrats’ drive to retain their large majorities in the House and Senate. (Full Story)

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