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

To: American Spirit who wrote (529743)	1/26/2004 12:06:06 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

If you look back over the span of John Kerry's career, you find that every few months or years he takes a hard look at some thorny public issue........... The problem is that he almost never follows up. When he makes these speeches he habitually asserts that he will mount a long public crusade. But then he takes his controversial ideas, jams them into a jar and buries them in the backyard. If you watch him campaign today, you will have no clue that he has ever had interesting thoughts on education, civil rights, poverty and so on. On these and other issues, he campaigns as an orthodox Democrat, comfortably in tune with Ted Kennedy and the party's major interest groups. Far from continuing in the reformist vein when it comes to education, he has a core platform plank that is pure pander: "Stop Blaming and Start Supporting Public School Educators." nytimes.com

To: American Spirit who wrote (529743)	1/26/2004 12:08:03 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Gore's endorsement of Dean was sound. It was the media that took Dean down, using the cannon shots delivered by his rivals. The so-called scream speech was manufactured by the media. Were the media sincerely critiquing that speech they would have featured Tom Harken, who was emphatic himself while sharing the stage with Dean that evening, in the after-interviews. According to my watching--and I try to observe it all--no tv stations interviewed Harken. Why? This tells me that Dean's slippage in support came more from a media set-up than anything. It had nothing to do with Gore's endorsement.