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

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (140616)	4/25/2001 11:02:48 PM
From: ThirdEye	Respond to of 769667

A simple explanation of the behavior of performing artists can be made by recalling behavioral psychology. When the rats in the cage push the button and get a food pellet every time, they learn to push the button only when they are hungry. But when they push the button and get a food pellet only some of the time, intermittent gratification, they become obsessed with pushing the button. This is Hollywood. Getting on camera, getting your name in the papers as often as possible is the only way to get the(relatively)unpredictable intermittent gratification that (if you're lucky)comes in the form of grotesquely inflated reimbursement for behavior of questionable value (except to the guys who provide it). Taking a leap into capitalizing on your notoriety for the sake of making political expressions is just another form of this learned behavior, for there surely must be some expectation of that food pellet showing up sooner or later. But don't kid yourself, the Hollywood crowd who supported Bush are no different from the liberals because they worked just as hard for their candidate. And the idea that Hollywood types doing this at all is somehow illegitimate, when it applies to liberals, of course, is another form of your selective antipathy to political expression.

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (140616)	4/26/2001 9:25:56 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

CK, 12 weeks into his presidency, Bush has provided us with doubletalk on a remarkable range of issues. 1. The economy is sinking. 2. The economy is looking up. 3. Against arsenic reductions. 4. For stricter arsenic regulations. 5. Won't apologize. 6. Apologize. 7. Defend Taiwan. 8. Don't defend Taiwan. The "man" is a moron. dailynews.yahoo.com Thursday April 26 8:24 AM ET Bush's Remarks on Taiwan Cause Stir By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush (news - web sites) has changed nothing in U.S. China policy, the White House and State Department are insisting. But on Capitol Hill, nobody seems quite sure exactly what he did. Some lawmakers said his remarks that the United States can use military force in Taiwan's defense negated traditional ambiguity in U.S. policy while acknowledging that there is but one China. Others said even if that's what he did, the time for ambiguity is over. ``Ambiguity never was any good,'' Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (news - bio - voting record), R-Calif., a longtime foe of China's communist-led government, said Wednesday. In all of this, the White House and the State Department asserted Bush's comments represented no change in policy toward China and Taiwan, the island in the Taiwan Strait that Beijing considers a renegade province.