Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (8775)	11/7/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Zoltan, I have already responded to this. I repeat: Bradley did not answer the question NOT because he did not know the answer, but because he is a gentleman, and does not want to take unfair advantage of Bush's discomfiture. In contrast to Al Gore, Bradley (and Clinton as well) refused to make hay out of Bush's mistakes, as reported in this Washington Post story: In an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America, President Clinton took it easy on Bush, saying he would "soon enough learn their names. . . . The most important thing is, do you have a clear idea of what the world ought to look like and what America's policy ought to be in these areas, so that's what I would say." Gore's rival in the Democratic race, Bill Bradley, echoed the president's sentiments, telling reporters in Boston: "I thought that it was--shall I say--a pop quiz that not everybody could answer. . . . I've been spending the night studying foreign leaders, as well as any other questions that might come about life. . . . You can't be prepared for all these things, and I think what the real question is where do you want to take the country." Interesting that you should try to put a different spin on this, and see Bradley's typical self-deprecation ("I've been spending the night studying foreign leaders") as an indication of real ignorance. Anyone who has followed Bradley knows that he is one of the few candidates out there right now with a strong background in foreign affairs. (McCain is probably another, although I have to confess I don't know that much about him.) Anyone who has followed Bush, by contrast, knows that he is pretty vague about what is going on in the world.