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

To: AK2004 who wrote (571387)	5/4/2004 11:50:35 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

What is truly astounding is that Bush is weak on many fronts. Let's face it, Americans today are not like Americans in 1941. Vietnam all but completely removed America's will to endure blood, sweat and tears over a protracted amount of time. This means with each American death, the press is going to post it against Bush as Ted Koppel has done, and Americans are going to dislike Bush for it. On the economic front, Americans no longer look to themselves, to their own work ethic and ingenuity to make their place in the world. Unlike pre-depression Americans, today's Americans almost uniformly look to the government to take care of them. They wish the government to give them jAAAHBs, to give them free drugs, to give them health insurance, abortions, education, birth control, food, rent money and very many other things that the decent Americans of the past would have looked to themselves to provide. So, today, when some toothless numbskull in Ohio loses his factory job, it just does not occur to him to think hard and quickly to try to adjust to or change his environment, he automatically looks for a government check. And when that government check runs out, he whines against Bush. On the social issues front it is the same thing. Because of the weakness of the general American population, so much of which now looks to the government for life and happiness, Bush is in a very difficult position. And despite this, Kerry hasn't managed to pull ahead of him. This suggests that the public isn't sold on Kerry. All that is needed for Bush to pull away from him is for things to stay as they are economically (or, preferably, to get a wee bit better) for Joe Sixpack, and also for Bush to display progress in Iraq. I suspect the first issue will improve before disaster strikes. I also suspect that we are going to be seeing some fabulous stuff out of Iraq. Bush doesn't wish to fire his ammo too early. Kerry has just fired everything. He has hardly anything left.