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

To: ColtonGang who wrote (43381)	10/6/2000 12:25:17 AM
From: Frank Griffin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Don't you think one of the best measures of a persons contribution and leadership qualities would be how the people perceive and grade him? If you feel that is accurate you would have to agree Texas feels he has done a very fine job. He was re-elected with 70% of the vote. Isn't that a nearly unheard of mandate?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (43381)	10/6/2000 12:51:22 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 769670

David: Texas is a very large state, as you know. Just the Population and International Immigration differences in 1999 alone show that. These figures indicate nearly 7:1 more people in TX vs. CT, and about 10 TIMES the International Immigration numbers to work with. Stands to reason that Mr. Bush has had to contend with the same issues you mentioned, but on a much larger scale than those in CT. I chose to compare these two states, as Mr. Gore has never been or Governor any state, nor any company but as you know has been VP for 8 years. While Mr. Cheney hasn't been Governor of a State, he has successfully been the head of a large company and also the head of a large government agency, both of which employ several hundred thousand people. 1999 Population CT=3,282,031 International Immigration: 8,259 1999 TX Population= 20,044,141 International Immigration: 81,934 askjeeves.com askjeeves.com

To: ColtonGang who wrote (43381)	10/6/2000 1:02:23 AM
From: phyxter	Respond to of 769670

Bush's leadership certainly wasn't evident in the first debate. Who took charge of the debate, and who had to be told how many times by Lehrer to "go ahead"? If he doesn't have the assertiveness to speak up for himself in that context, how the heck can you expect him to exhibit any leadership qualities in the most powerful office in the world? I really expected better. He was so frightened of making a blunder that he hadn't the courage to say anything. Give me Dan Quayle. At least he knew how to speak up for what he believed and would not have allowed himself to squelched like that. This is a leader? Bush is the dimmest bulb to be on a major presidential ticket in the television age (And I include Quayle in this accounting). The depressing part is to think that, in the end, the best Gore could manage in the debate with this moron was a push. Gore proved once and for all that he is no Clinton. Put Clinton in that debate with this wimp and this election would be over. But, Bush has to flirt yet twice more with the abyss ... I must say that today's debate was better, in contrast to the monologue earlier this week (Bush never showed up). Interesting to see that Cheney continued the Bush fudge on the question of abortion rights - the clearest admission you can have that the battle in the public (if not among the politicians) over abortion rights is over. Clearly they are trying to woo independents and undecideds, the people in the middle, and recognize that these are not interested in more government interference in people's private lives. I thought Cheney did very well (as did Lieberman), which only further underscored the mediocrity at the top of that ticket. I did not expect him to do that well, and was quite favorably impressed.