Serbia s democratic leaders of today must understand that the loss of Kosovo although not their doing is an irreversible reality with which they must come to terms.

But the democrats are not giving up.

It will also be a government without the Greens, who continue to have a devoted, if limited, clientele, but are now regarded by many as a luxury that Germany can no longer afford. This leaves two possibilities a coalition between the CDU, its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, and the liberal Free Democrats, or a grand coalition between the SPD and the CDU.

Organizations need both, but leaders are more important.

In a few months, talks between Communist bosses and their democratic opponents (often in the form of a roundtable) paved the way to free elections and new democratic governments in Budapest, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia.

You have more influence than some of us who are Democrats do.

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The March of the Caudillos

Whether it is conservatives like Sarkozy, Christian Democrats like Merkel, right wing populists like Berlusconi, or socialists like Zapatero, political affiliation appears to make no difference.

There are calls for the Democrats to fight back.

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Lots of democracy activists are not happy, especially leftists ones.

Like other democratic leaders, he might consider working in the private sector, like Gerhard Schröder, or, better yet, write books and help Tsunami victims, like Bill Clinton or become an environmentalist, like Mikhail Gorbachev.

Democrats have even managed to beat the Republicans on their own turf.

I do want to make the world safe for democratic politicians.

Italy, under the Christian Democrats, had the same problem.

This added to the enmity that southern white Democrats bore toward him.

In 1974, the touted Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition never materialized, as the Liberal Democrats were wary of hitching their fortunes to an unpopular and discredited politician.

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Schwarzenegger is a Republican, so Democrats privately wish him to fail.

Democrats and Republicans alike have both been responsible for this development.

Many democracy activists have been arrested throughout the country.

Social democrats were always despised by communists, and vice versa.

It is derived from the combination of the colour of the social democrats (red) and liberals (blue).

The Snowden affair has blown up any illusion about trust between leaders and also about leaders competence.

But that trust dissipates succeeding generations of leaders do not inherit it completely, and must earn it.

This is not an argument against transformational leaders.

The winners are not the Republicans or the Democrats, or even the companies that fund them.

In short, the crisis has produced a deep delegitimization of Greece s democratic politicians and their supposed achievements.

The Democrats are surely the more skeptical of America s two parties.

The greatest democratic politicians have a large capacity for shallow friendships.

Since the Christian Democrats do not agree, the government has fallen.

Second, it is McCain whom the Democrats should attack.

In fact, Kirchner should be especially worried by a Democratic victory.

That attack was immediately condemned by all political leaders.

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Good leaders realize the importance of providing their people with a vision.

Tantalus criticized Rice s incomprehensible support for some of the Lebanese leaders and questioned the actions of some of those leaders for whom she declared the backing of the US government

In Washington, many Democrats will use these policy debates to capitalize on popular fury at Wall Street, while many Republicans look for an opening to capitalize on hoped for public anger at the Democrats.

Good leaders construct teams that combine these functions, making sure to hire subordinates who can compensate for the leader s managerial deficiencies.

Now, my concern is, we Dems, too often, not so much.

Republican presidents have a better record in negotiating with enemies than do Democratic ones.

And, in the US, ideological polarization between Democrats and Republicans will continue to paralyze economic policy.

America remains closely divided into red states (Republican) and blue states (Democrat).

It is here that political leaders should devote their efforts.