To: Alighieri who wrote (182856 ) 2/17/2004 2:51:48 AM From: tejek Respond to Al Franken has used an expression to deride bush..." Leave the man alone...he doesn't know...leave the man alone". Sadly, I think Al is rights. Remember in the pre 9/11 days, when he did not have the unfortunate benefit of that dreaded disaster, and we were all saying just how dumb this man seemed and how he gave the impression that he had to be choreographed into being a front for a complex political machine behind him? As the memory of 9/11 fades, we get quickly back to the notion that American is in the hands of a man of pedestrian intellect, very much under the influence of others. There is the cheney/rumsfeld faction that controls foreign policy and the hughes/rove stay on message faction that controls domestic policy. And this poor guy is in the middle awash in things he does not understand very well, unable to tie it all together and keep from being manipulated and left only with the simplest of choices, which is to listen to others and try to win re-election....and things are not going well...
