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20040126
CNN.com - Dean predicts comeback, takes swipe at media - Jan. 26, 2004
To all those who hate Bush so much, the so-called "arch-liberals" and "far left," can rest assure that the arch-conservative and the far right feel the same way about Clinton. Now I understand what it must be like to see Clinton, a Democrat, win re-election when they have been frothing at the teeth to destroy him. The Republicans led a great comeback to re-take control of both Houses of Congress two years after Clinton's first term, but failed to beat Clinton himself in 1996.
Now to have seen Bush, who might or might not win re-election, parading himself before the Southern states to help the Republicans there beat the Democrats, the liberals are now in so much fury at what Bush has done, to the environment, to women's rights, to minority's rights, etc. In fact, the liberals are so caught that they cannot move forward, that they have become the new conservatives, struggling to keep things the same even while the conservatives are making great stride to remaking the government in their own image.
I shudder at this political brinkmanship, where both sides expend time, energy, and money to no ends to achieve an end result that will last only two years before the cycle starts again, before the campaigning begins anew. Here is President Bush, the man, whose only goal are to win re-election, protect the country, and satisfy the conservative base in some cases. It is laudable and cannot go far without contradicting themselves. Bush will never propose a tax increase, that much as I can be sure, just as Arnold Schwarzenneger has promised never to raise tax, and so far, he ain't gonna!
What I was saying was that I admire Bush for still being popular with half of the American population. He's like Lincoln, only instead of slavery, he has nothing going for him except the country's safety, and also, he's definitely less eloquent than Lincoln. He's trying to satisfy his base, just as Lincoln tried to satisfy the radical Republicans while still trying not to destroy the Southern economy.
Of course, there's been plenty of times when the President had to tread between two separate and equal powers. He needs his conservative base to sustain him, but go too far right, and the liberal and the media that listen to the liberal, will never let him hear the end of it. The press pays attention only to whoever listen to them.
To all those who hate Bush so much, the so-called "arch-liberals" and "far left," can rest assure that the arch-conservative and the far right feel the same way about Clinton. Now I understand what it must be like to see Clinton, a Democrat, win re-election when they have been frothing at the teeth to destroy him. The Republicans led a great comeback to re-take control of both Houses of Congress two years after Clinton's first term, but failed to beat Clinton himself in 1996.
Now to have seen Bush, who might or might not win re-election, parading himself before the Southern states to help the Republicans there beat the Democrats, the liberals are now in so much fury at what Bush has done, to the environment, to women's rights, to minority's rights, etc. In fact, the liberals are so caught that they cannot move forward, that they have become the new conservatives, struggling to keep things the same even while the conservatives are making great stride to remaking the government in their own image.
I shudder at this political brinkmanship, where both sides expend time, energy, and money to no ends to achieve an end result that will last only two years before the cycle starts again, before the campaigning begins anew. Here is President Bush, the man, whose only goal are to win re-election, protect the country, and satisfy the conservative base in some cases. It is laudable and cannot go far without contradicting themselves. Bush will never propose a tax increase, that much as I can be sure, just as Arnold Schwarzenneger has promised never to raise tax, and so far, he ain't gonna!
What I was saying was that I admire Bush for still being popular with half of the American population. He's like Lincoln, only instead of slavery, he has nothing going for him except the country's safety, and also, he's definitely less eloquent than Lincoln. He's trying to satisfy his base, just as Lincoln tried to satisfy the radical Republicans while still trying not to destroy the Southern economy.
Of course, there's been plenty of times when the President had to tread between two separate and equal powers. He needs his conservative base to sustain him, but go too far right, and the liberal and the media that listen to the liberal, will never let him hear the end of it. The press pays attention only to whoever listen to them.
