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

To: MSI who wrote (481875)	10/26/2003 8:28:44 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

what do you think of Dean's policies on trade though? A little too isolationist? I'm looking for another Clinton in the next election, somebody right down the middle. Dean is great on fiscal matters.

To: MSI who wrote (481875)	10/26/2003 8:39:44 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

MSI, Re: IMO, so many are aware now, though, it's either they are out or there's going to be hell to pay. I'm hardly optimistic about the coming election. All one needs to do is to observe the astonishing ability of a political neophyte and grandstander like Arnold Schwarzenegger to secure a decisive victory in the California recall election. A.S. refused to engage on the matter of policy during the election. The voters ate it up. Why? Any thinking democracy would have utterly rejected such a candidate as being non-responsive to the needs of democracy. But we no longer appear to live in a democracy. We now live in an ersatz Disneyesque imitation of a democracy. And the voters are happy to play their part as obliging followers to a charismatic leader. This is the winning strategy of the demagogue throughout the ages. But it is hardly conducive to furthering Western liberal democratic traditions. ****** Re: Krugman's brilliant. He shows that the numbers prove the real underlying Bushista policy. Disappointingly, very few of us seem to comprehend the truth that Krugman so clearly presents. Here's a link to a "Voter Focus Group" that occured in Exton, PA last week: c-span.org What is so shocking, and was noted by multiple callers to the Washington Journal program as well as the talking heads, was how utterly ill-informed this group of citizens happened to be. Among people on this SI thread, I'd say many of us could list all the Democratic candidates for President. Among this focus group, the norm was that these voters could identify far fewer than half the candidates. As they say, ignorance is bliss. If so, America must be a very happy place.