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Politics : The Left Wing Porch
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To: FaultLine who wrote (2277)12/31/2000 11:18:48 AM
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President for Our Dumbed-Down Times
By DOUG GAMBLE
latimes.com
[Excerpt]
Democrats salivating at the prospect of a dim-bulb presidency leading to George W. Bush's defeat in 2004 may be as disappointed as Republicans who were sure Bill Clinton's immorality would bring him down.

While capturing at least 270 electoral college votes is the key to winning the Oval Office, capturing the tenor of the times is an important factor in hanging on to it. And just as Clinton's sleazy conduct both before and during his presidency was in step with an American culture in moral decline, Bush's shallow intellect perfectly reflects an increasingly dumbed-down America.

In 1992, Clinton's survival of the Gennifer Flowers affair in the New Hampshire primary signaled a new political era when character no longer seemed to matter to the voters, as it had just four years earlier when a revelation of marital infidelity by Democrat Gary Hart sank his presidential hopes. In 2000, Bush survived dismal showings in early primary debates, appearing in some as though he'd be hard-pressed to name the president of the United States, let alone foreign leaders. And his garbled syntax cried out for a simultaneous translation of his remarks to be run across the bottom of the TV screen.
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