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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (137023)5/23/2001 11:46:18 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (4) of 1578201
 
Re: It is not impossible that this is just the first of several defections

I'll never forget the interview of Jeb & Junior I saw televised after Junior won Texas and Jeb lost Florida (his first attempt). George Junior was crowing over the fact that he started his run quite a bit later than Jeb, but Jeb lost and George won.

W was doing his best to humiliate his younger brother on national television right after Jeb had suffered a tough defeat. It was one of the uglier things I've ever seen.

Junior is evidently petty, vindictive, and mean in the small things. It seems that even members of his own party are getting fed up. It's not the big issues - everyone makes mistakes (his handling of arsenic levels in drinking water was not well done, for example - but no one is going to switch parties over that). It's the little stuff, the things where there's just no excuse.

Whatever else anyone might think of Clinton, however much you might detest him, he was rarely mean spirited or petty. And most of his party stuck with him through quite a few very big problems. But the kind of small but vicious little jabs George Jr. seems to so enjoy delivering appear to be driving away other members of the government far more quickly than Clinton's much larger, but less spiteful errors did.

Dan
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