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To: michael97123 who wrote (148165)	10/19/2004 10:55:16 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Sometimes we have to agree to disagree on things but today's New York Times had an interesting passage... "Mr. Bush's job approval rating is at 44 percent, a dangerously low number for an incumbent president, and one of the lowest of his tenure. A majority of voters said that they disapproved of the way Mr. Bush had managed the economy and the war in Iraq, and - echoing a refrain of Mr. Kerry's - that his tax cuts had favored the wealthy. Voters said that Mr. Kerry would do a better job of preserving Social Security, creating jobs and ending the war in Iraq." It's tough to win re-elction IF the approval rating is below 50%.

To: michael97123 who wrote (148165)	10/19/2004 11:10:32 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 281500

Think Again: Bush's Foreign Policy __________________________________________ By Melvyn P. Leffler* Foreign Policy September/October 2004 Issue "Not since Richard Nixon's conduct of the war in Vietnam has a U.S. president's foreign policy so polarized the country-and the world. Yet as controversial as George W. Bush's policies have been, they are not as radical a departure from his predecessors as both critics and supporters proclaim. Instead, the real weaknesses of the president's foreign policy lie in its contradictions: Blinded by moral clarity and hamstrung by its enormous military strength, the United States needs to rebalance means with ends if it wants to forge a truly effective grand strategy." complete Foreign Policy article at: truthout.org *Melvyn P. Leffler is Edward Stettinius professor of American history at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the prizewinning history of the early Cold War A Preponderance of Power: National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992).