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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (13809)	3/3/2000 1:56:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

er... your mind works oddly. Did you notice that I referred to Dowd's column as the Maureen Dowd Bitch-Column? I dislike her. What do her rants have to do with the quote of Bush? She is not the only one who has reported that particular amusing gaffe. And why do you conclude I like Al Gore? I don't. He is a horse's ass, and a fabulator. Now, his fabulations shouldn't bother you, as you (unlike me) found fabulation in Ronald Reagan entirely unexceptionable. I, on the other hand, find the inability to distinguish self-aggrandizing myth from reality disconcerting in any candidate for leadership of the free world. The only defense you will ever be able to make of your ludicrous guy is to point out the inadequacies of the other contenders. Feel free to ridicule them all. I do. What a great country we have. Absurd, sometimes, but great.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (13809)	3/3/2000 2:35:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 769667

Dowd is, uh, a little sarcastic, though I think that's a hazard of the trade when you've spent too much time on the national political beat. But I have to point out again another bit of the column E quoted. It was a thrill akin to watching Wile E. Coyote push the plunger on a load of Acme dynamite to hear Mr. McCain tag Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton, all in the same breath, as "agents of intolerance." The Arizona senator can pander and his campaign can deceive. But he's irreverent enough to tell the truth about the reverends. nytimes.com Offhand, I'd say Dowd had that one pegged, dead on. It sure blew up in McCain's face, to everybody's great satisfaction here. Personally, I'm happy to see the Republican's reverence for Robertson and Falwell restored. I'd be even happier if W and the party would own up to dogma on overturning Roe, though that wouldn't be all that entertaining. Honest, maybe, but who needs that? Unctuous sanctimony and disingenuousness are not mutually exclusive qualities.