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To: LindyBill who wrote (47458)	9/27/2002 1:07:58 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Kauthammer was pissed in that column, not reasonable, I will give you that. However, I think "Puty-pute's" interview about it, that Krauthammer quotes, is telling. He was surprised that Clinton did so little after the Embassy bombings and the Cole. I think our lack of response was a contributing factor to 911. Well, we'll have to disagree over Putin. K is one of those columnists I don't trust to quote correctly and/or place things in their proper context. He's all about the blame game with hyperbolic adjectives. But, then, I think I've said that before. As for Clinton doing more about bin Laden, I don't think it was the Monica stuff at all. Everything I've read says that Clinton and the folk immediately around him were convinced the American public would not tolerate military casualties. Dictated almost everything they did. That was the result, I think, of Somalia. On the Hitchens' column, sorry, I did not know you were waiting around. :-) I though it was low key for him. Usually, he and Cockburn are a match in The Nation. Cockburn still appears to be in high hyperbole mode; Hitchens, at least for this column, was a bit more confessional, a bit more tolerable, and, unfortunately, a bit less entertaining. On Gore's speech. I only saw the TV clips so am in no position to comment seriously. I was, as you noted, glad to see some Dem take on the Bush approach to going to war. Gore's no political hero of mine. I suspect I can find as mnay or more things wrong with his political stances over the years than you can. On Missouri, I had forgotten the interim character of the Senate seat and the issue of the period between the elections in November and the installation of the new senate in January. As for Talent, I don't know anything on that race. Don't know anything about either candidate. And have been too busy with other matters to read The Note on ABC News.com. If you don't read it regularly and you have a serious addiction for political talk, check it out. We can expect the usual trickery. On both sides.