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To: michael97123 who wrote (35186)	3/17/2004 8:21:51 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793587

Do you want everything to come to a stop when the enemy strikes? Seeing cheney today make his speech while that hotel was in flames was not encouraging to me who has been a supported. Let's put all the cards on the table. You've never been a Bush supporter have you? Let's be totally honest.

To: michael97123 who wrote (35186)	3/17/2004 8:43:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793587

Naturally he thought kerry would do a better job Naturally, because he [Holbrooke] would be Secretary of State in a Kerry Presidency, or so he thinks. This is a lousy situation getting lousier each day Curious you should say so the day after the BBC, ABC and Time all run polls that give generally optimistic results. Mixed, but on the whole, optimistic.

To: michael97123 who wrote (35186)	3/17/2004 10:34:21 PM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 793587

Seeing cheney today make his speech while that hotel was in flames was not encouraging to me who has been a supported. I cant even imagine what the ordinary american thinks about this anymore. Ordinary Americans are optimistic about it but not euphoric. Their country was devastatingly attacked in 2001. Their government announced a war plan and followed up on it. The US has responded and attacked the enemy, invading some of his territory, driving him from his redoubts. They know they have not won the war but so far, over all, progress is more encouraging than discouraging. That is the general picture they see. It's not a superb picture, but it's not a horribly bad one, either. That is why, as I said, Americans are optimistic. There is a great deal of day to day negative reporting because bad news is an adrenalin pumper and is supposed to sell broadcast and print news. However, human beings, even very ordinary ones like me, can make an instinctive distinction between today's news and and the actual progress of events over preceding months or even years. The folk who have more trouble making the distinction are news junkies and journalist who are, in a sense, stuck far too much in the present. They have more difficulty digging up the necessary cognitive dissonance.