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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (5301)	11/10/2002 6:43:05 PM
From: Rich1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 206959

Interesting article in todays NT Times...Re: The Bush Dynasty.. Could that be setting it up for Jeb??? A Bush Dynasty Begins to Look Real By ADAM CLYMER ASHINGTON — UNTIL last week, American history had not been very kind to the idea of political dynasty at the national level. After John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams, whose presidencies were failures but whose other services to the nation honor them, there were the undistinguished terms of Benjamin Harrison and his grandson William Henry Harrison, as well as the failures to win even state office by the sons of Franklin D. Roosevelt, himself only a fifth cousin to Theodore. Advertisement It’s time to put all of your photos onto your computer If your eyes have changed... shouldn’t your light? Scientists adapt NASA technology to create "smart bed" sleep surface Atomic accuracy in any U.S. time zone Warm up to this dual oscillating ceramic heater Why spend hundreds on a bigger monitor… enlarge the one you have Motion sensor technology creates low cost surveillance system Look out Big Foot, this binocular takes pictures! The Kennedys produced one martyred president and two brothers whose presidential hopes ended in a hotel kitchen in Los Angeles and on a bridge at Chappaquiddick, though Edward M. Kennedy's durable liberalism has changed the nation more than his brothers did. But the next generation of Kennedys produced two minor congressmen and a lieutenant governor, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, whose loss in the race for governor of Maryland on Tuesday was the family's first general election defeat since John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald, her great-grandfather, was beaten in a race for governor of Massachusetts in 1922. But it is hard to imagine a better week for one family's dynastic prospects than the one that began with President Bush, after taking the risk of relentless campaigning, regaining a Senate majority for his party and becoming the first Republican president to gain House seats in an off-year election. There was more. Those victories would have seemed hollow if Mr. Bush's brother Jeb had not been re-elected governor of Florida, withstanding a Democratic challenge that labeled him the party's No. 1 target. Not only that, Jeb Bush's easy victory made him an obvious presidential candidate for 2008, and President Bush's announcement that he would keep on Dick Cheney as vice president avoided anointing a rival to his brother. Mr. Bush's domestic political success was crowned Friday at the United Nations, when the administration, after a patience that many critics and some supporters doubted, won a Security Council resolution demanding renewed weapons inspections in Iraq and warning of "serious consequences" if Baghdad resists. That vote, unlike the results on Election Day, was unanimous. Now that Mr. Bush has won a political victory more decisive than in 2000, when he finished second in the popular vote, it is hardly too early to examine the nature of the Bush dynasty, and why — at the moment at least — it has largely escaped the antagonism that led the founders to fear any hereditary power or titles. Such sentiment prompted political foes to compare the Adamses to the Stuart kings of Britain and the Kennedys' adversaries to warn that eight years of Jack, eight years of Bobby and eight years of Ted would, after all, conclude in the Orwellian 1984. It is a plainly surprising dynasty. Stephen Hess, a Republican speechwriter who wrote "America's Political Dynasties" in 1966 (when the elder George Bush was winning a seat in the House), said, "I have always thought of the Bushes as the accidental dynasty," one that came to its ambitions late. He noted that the first President Bush moved away from Connecticut, where his father, Senator Prescott Bush, had a political base, and "drifted into politics pretty late in life." After a failed run for the House in 1978 when he was 32, George W. Bush next ran for office in 1994. In between, family money and family friends' money had staked him in various efforts, including his tenure as managing general partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, where he made his own fortune. Robert S. Strauss, the former Democratic national chairman who has been a friend of the Bushes for years, said the 1994 candidacy was widely viewed "as rather a fool's errand, defeating a reasonably popular sitting governor," Ann Richards. "Certain members of his family thought it was a mistake," Mr. Strauss said, "but he showed in that campaign for governor that he had political instincts that served him exceedingly well."

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (5301)	11/11/2002 7:00:09 AM
From: nsumir81	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 206959

GZ my point is.. it was made in the message you replied to (only not just in the last sentence). That Clinton who you seem to rest a lot of blame now on, was praised, or at least not blamed some time back (by your own actions through voting). That what you feel now is also subject to possible change. Just like folks calling bottoms in this bear market. 'No, no this time it MUST be it. I am sure of that. I BELIEVE that this is the bottom.' That answers do not lie in the immediate past in the quest for quick and convenient ones. As for the future? I hope we win.