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

To: ColtonGang who wrote (35182)	9/6/2000 3:00:31 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Washington, Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) -- The head of a congressional committee investigating the Bridgestone Corp. tire recall said a Ford Motor Co. memo suggests the companies conspired to withhold information from U.S. safety regulators. Representative Billy Tauzin, citing a March 1999 document, said Bridgestone feared that Ford's move to replace tires in Saudi Arabia would mean they would have to tell U.S. regulators. Federal officials are now investigating at least 88 U.S. deaths that may be linked to the tires, which were recalled last month. ``It's the first clear evidence of an intentional effort to deceive federal agencies chiefly responsible for safety on the highway,'' Tauzin told Bloomberg Television. The Louisiana Republican leads the House Commerce subcommittee, which along with a Senate panel is holding hearings on the recall today. WHO WANTS LESS GOVT AND MORE PRIVATIZATION NOW?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (35182)	9/6/2000 3:00:47 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

than bush who has Zero experience in all phases of govt. See, this type of post is how you lose credibility sick-o. I seem to recall Bush being Governor of a fairly large state. Can you name it? And as far as phonies go, you don't get any phonier than Clinton and Gore. Just look at Gore's campaign slogan: "Al Gore: Fighting for Us!" LOLOLOLOL!!! What a crock! JLA

To: ColtonGang who wrote (35182)	9/6/2000 4:49:44 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769667

What's wrong with the Governor to President scenario? Clinton, Reagan, Carter ring a bell? What does all this statistical gobbledy-gook actually mean? It simply is a clear indication that Americans have tended to prefer putting forth for consideration as President those who have served as Governors over those who have served as Senators (and, lest one think the 19th century was all that different from the 20th: while it is true that 6 of the 19th century elected Presidents were ex-Senators versus only 4 who were Governors/ex-Governors in their most recent elective office at the time of their election, not one of the 6 19th century President-to-be Senators was a sitting Senator when elected to the Presidency- while 3 of the 4 Governors elected to the White House in the 19th century were incumbents in that office when first elected [only James Knox Polk was an ex-Governor at the time of his election] and, besides, 2 of the 6 ex-Senators elected President in the 19th century were also ex-Governors!). The traditional reason given by most political observers for the fact that Governors are generally viewed as better Presidential Timber than Senators is that Governors gain valuable hands-on executive experience useful in the White House- experience which Senators do not have. I would argue, however, that- and this would be especially true in the 20th century as against the 19th- another reason may simply be that Senators are more used to reasoned debate and argument under controlled circumstances on either the floor of the Senate or in committee while Governors are in the State equivalent of Teddy Roosevelt's "bully pulpit" and, thus, facing the vagaries of political football day in and day out: Governors, like Presidents, are the point men- and, at times, the targets- in their respective political realms; Senators, meanwhile, are members of the most politically deliberative body in America, if not the World. Yet, the American Electorate is the most non-deliberative body in our whole political structure: which office then- Governor or Senator- best prepares a presidential contender for the slings and arrows of the election campaign?