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

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (42606)	10/4/2000 4:59:37 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Tom Daschle would be Senate Majority Leader if the Democrats win the Senate. Here is what Senatore Duce told the delegates at the Democratic National Convention on Aug. 15: "There's a wonderful movie, 'The Straight Story.' It's about an old farmer who meets a young woman who's in a lot of trouble. He tells her that when his children were little, he would hand them a stick and tell them to break it. And they would, just like that. Then, he'd put the sticks in a bundle and ask his kids to break it. They couldn't. He gave them some advice: 'That bundle is family. That bundle is our community. We are stronger together than we are alone.' That is the simplest description I know of our party's core belief. I don't know if Daschle is a fascist or not, but it is telling that he would select the fasces as the symbol of his party. I wonder if he was thinking of Rome, who used the symbol to represent the unbreakable power of the state, or was he thinking of Mussolini's authoritarian and collectivist social order?