I just heard on the news that the New York City's New Democrat candidate against Giulliani (what's her face?) got her ass kicked and failed to win her party's nomination. The stumbling block was that she was endorsed by the police "unions" and that support backfired after the recent revelations of NYPD use of torture. That sounds like music to my ears, because while I disagree with Republican politics, I cannot blame them for hypocrisy -- they do not hide that they represent white suburbanite and corporate interests only. As for New Democrats, they also represent white suburbanite and corporate only -- yet they hypocritically pretend to represent the poor, disadvantaged, etc. That makes them more dangerous than GOP, because they sing the song their constituents want to hear to get elected, and then pull a clinton. It looks like for more years of Giulliani -- which might not be a bad thing after all, beacuse it will be a lot easier to mobilise people against that cockroach than against a "bleeding heart" New Democrat. Any comments? wojtek sokolowski institute for policy studies johns hopkins university baltimore, md 21218 [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: (410) 516-4056 fax: (410) 516-8233 POLITICS IS THE SHADOW CAST ON SOCIETY BY BIG BUSINESS. AND AS LONG AS THIS IS SO, THE ATTENUATI0N OF THE SHADOW WILL NOT CHANGE THE SUBSTANCE. - John Dewey