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

To: Jumper who wrote (193797)	10/19/2001 6:04:01 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

No on two counts. Not the same team, and no failure.

To: Jumper who wrote (193797)	10/19/2001 6:51:41 PM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

that failed in Iraq How do you define failure?

To: Jumper who wrote (193797)	10/20/2001 5:53:20 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769667

>>still the same mgmt., that failed in Iraq No, the entire Clinton regime is gone.

To: Jumper who wrote (193797)	10/20/2001 6:59:59 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush Winning Gore Backers' High Praises [Dem Leaders say: We're glad "Gore did not win"] NYT Politics/Elections Source: The NY Times Published: Oct. 20, 2001 Author: Richard Berke October 20, 2001 Bush Winning Gore Backers' High Praises By RICHARD L. BERKE WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 — As he leads the country in a war on terrorism, President Bush has won over some unlikely supporters, prominent Democrats who campaigned for Al Gore in last year's presidential campaign. Many Democrats who once dismissed Mr. Bush as too naïve and too dependent on advisers to steer the United States through an international crisis are now praising his and his advisers' performance. Some are even privately expressing satisfaction that Mr. Gore, who tried to make his foreign affairs expertise an issue in the campaign, did not win. Sounding relieved that Mr. Gore is not president, Representative Jim Moran, a Virginia Democrat, said: "I feel comfortable with President Bush. I never thought I would utter those words." He continued: "Even though I'm a Democrat and think the Supreme Court selected our president, I don't think it's to our disadvantage to have George Bush as president. Sometimes you need a certain amount of braggadocio in your leaders." Perhaps out of a desire to rally around Mr. Bush, not one of more than 15 prominent Gore loyalists interviewed said their candidate would have done a better job. The most blunt assessments were from Democrats who spoke on the condition that they not be identified. Several said the nation was fortunate to have Mr. Bush in power, and they questioned whether Mr. Gore would have surrounded himself with as experienced a foreign policy team as Mr. Bush did. Citing Mr. Gore's sometimes rambling speech in Des Moines on Sept. 29 in which he praised Mr. Bush, some Democrats also questioned whether the former vice president would have been as nimble at communicating to the public..... nytimes.com ...Still, many Democrats said they felt particularly reassured by Mr. Bush's team, particularly Vice President Cheney; Mr. Powell, the secretary of state; and Donald H. Rumsfeld, the defense secretary. The diminished confidence in Mr. Gore that some Democrats are expressing is a big change from last year's campaign, when Gore supporters argued that Mr. Gore should be elected because of his grasp of world affairs, if for no other reason. At a rally only days before the election, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, Mr. Gore's running mate, asserted, "When I think of a solitary figure standing in the Oval Office, weighing life and death decisions that can affect the security of our country and the stability of our world, I see Al Gore."... Let's hope Lieberman got some glasses at long last.