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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: energyplay who wrote (21715)	10/5/2004 1:48:56 PM
From: kodiak_bull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

Ep, That could be true. I know he writes for the Chicago Sun Times, but not being too familiar with the Windy City, don't even know if that is a conservative paper, etc. I posted it because I am a sucker for happy turns of phrase, a rhythmic prose style and a devilish sense of irony. Take this paragraph as a simple "for instance": "These kinds of platitudes ring particularly empty from Senator Kerry. Americans do not begrudge a man making great wealth or inheriting it. But there is something vaguely icky about living the high life off the money of your wife’s first husband, especially when you give off the air that the good things that flow therefrom – the private jets, the luxury vacations homes, the $8,000 bicycle – are essential to your sense of yourself. Bush is rich but no-one would have a home in Crawford, Texas unless it really was his home: you don’t go there for haute cuisine or the jet set. If you prefer a less partisan comparison, take Governor Dean, a Park Avenue blueblood who found love, happiness and fulfillment in a materially modest life in Vermont. But Kerry’s expensive tastes seem central to his identity. And his preferred formulation for detaching his policy positions from his lifestyle is especially feeble: “That’s not my SUV, that’s the family’s SUV” – as if Teresa’s his Halliburton and he just happens to be enjoying some windfall profits, which, come to think of it, seems pretty much the case." Kerry is the best the Dems can do, a northeastern Senator now running on Howard Dean's program, minus the scream. As in many things, sometimes if you can't get the "W" and are saddled with the "L", you look for minor or moral victories. Adlai Stevenson was way smarter than Ike, Jimmy Carter was the victim of bad timing and a Hollywood wash up. The Kerry campaign having already lost the minor competition for Best Convention, are happy to have won the moral victory of First Debate winner. But will it translate to the votes of the undecided? According to the Dems the final will look like NY, CA, New England, the Pacific NW and Hawaii for Kerry, and nobody else: electoral-vote.com Kb