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[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

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William Safire
Age: 79 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 17
Died: 2009
Died: September 27
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