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

To: ManyMoose who wrote (248640)	4/17/2002 11:57:30 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That's exactly why we had to endure eight years of Bill Clinton. The real spin during the Clinton years were the many many many false charges made. These were given a veneer of legitimacy by partisan hacks like Ken Starr and Tom DeLay. There was never any basis for the smears and so the denials can hardly be called spin. prospect.org Now, however, the right has discovered that its extreme ideological postures -- social Darwinism, market fundamentalism, government in the bedroom -- are out of step with the values and views of most Americans. So its politics have become even more poisonous and personal, a politics of scandal rather than ideas (a prime example of which is the demonization of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle). Its tactics are more brutish; its contempt for Americans -- and thus its willingness to lie and distort -- more pervasive. TP