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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (93676)	11/29/2000 10:32:42 AM
From: md1derful	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

TP: why is Gore so silent about the lawsuit in seminole county...you'd think he'd be spinning this like there;s no tomorrow..really now...WHY IS HE SO SILENT ABOUT THIS LAWSUIT..again multiple spins, er, opinions accepted..would love a reasonable answer from tp tho doc

To: TigerPaw who wrote (93676)	11/29/2000 10:54:27 AM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Maureen Dowd asks an interesting question in her column today: "Why is our kinda-sorta chief executive the low man on his own totem pole?" Dowd goes on: "We knew that his political nannies told him stuff only on a need-to-know basis. But now that the guy is seconds away from the White House, we learn that his handlers deal with him on a needs-not-to-know basis. "Last week in Austin, our Wannabe President George Bush, miniature clone of President George Bush, happily told reporters that Dick Cheney had "had no heart attack." "The hospital, the Cheney family and Mr. Bush's press aide, Karen Hughes, knew that Mr. Cheney had, that morning, undergone a heart procedure. But Ms. Hughes did not tell that to her boss before he spoke so rosily and ignorantly about Mr. Cheney's condition. "When the election ended, Mini-Me was shocked that he had not won in a landslide. His strategists had apparently failed to inform him that things were getting tight, just as they hadn't alerted him that he was cratering in New Hampshire. Did they not trust him with the information, fearing he might get cranky? "Presidents get dangerously insulated in the White House. But this boy's in a bubble before he even gets to the Oval bubble." Gore, she says is an Ahab-like obsessive. "But Mini-Me also seems lost, because he isn't consumed enough with nailing down and planning his presidency. The grown-ups keep sending him off to play. They know he doesn't like messes, he doesn't do serious well and he can't do follow-up answers except to refer reporters to James Baker, his Manchurian operator. "So it's best to let him go fool around at the ranch or go to the gym for three-hour workouts while they take care of complicated stuff like the Supreme Court and the trompe l'oeil transition, and while they try to restore Poppy's White House to its original glory, as lovingly as though it were da Vinci's "Last Supper." "The usual case would have been for Dick Cheney to go to all the funerals and George Bush to do all the work," says Rahm Emanuel, a former Clinton adviser. "But it's turning out the other way around. Cheney needs a patients' bill of rights." "Mr. Cheney was the most reluctant of campaigners. But now we are in the Cheney ascendancy. The Bush team hurried him out of his hospital bed to the microphones because they know he sounds reassuring, mature. "During the campaign, W. had a swagger, a John Wayne gunslinger pose. But now when he comes out to face the cameras he blinks and shrinks, looking tremulous and frightened, dwarfed by American flags. "He struggles to exude authority. He furrows his brow, trying to look more sagacious, but he ends up looking as if he has indigestion. Appearing confused at his own speech, he seems like a first-grade actor in a production of "James and the Giant Peach." Are his blinks Morse code for "Oh, man, don't let that teleprompter break"? ... "Asked yesterday why Mini-Me had retreated yet again to the Waco ranch, Ms. Hughes said it was "a tranquil place where it's easy to do some thinking and reflecting." "Nice try. Mini-Me is not Proust in the Brambles. "W. does not seem to grasp that the president can't delegate the presidency itself. Of course, his aides might not have told him that yet. " nytimes.com

To: TigerPaw who wrote (93676)	11/29/2000 4:02:01 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

<< Either George will need to come to a power sharing arrangement >> So is it President Bush one day and President Gore the next? Do they alternate by weeks? months? years? 2 years? Does one serve as the other's vice? Do you realize that none of this is constitutional? So how do you have a power sharing arrangement? << So far Bush has acted like he can claim a mandate from fewer votes than were probably cast for his high school prom king. >> As I remember, Bush got almost 50 MILLION votes. What high school is that large?