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...days after George W. Bush strutted across the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in full fighter-pilot regalia--an image we may see from time to time between now and Election Day--the nine Democrats running for President of the U.S. held their first debate of the 2004 campaign. No more than 10 minutes into it, two of those Democrats, John Kerry of Massachusetts and Howard Dean of Vermont, had entangled themselves in a ridiculous scuffle over the issue of gay rights. Not that they disagreed. Both are staunch advocates of equal rights and "civil unions." But Kerry believed...
...generation of strait-jacketed Democrats who think small, who sound as if they were animatronic, who are willing to bend themselves into pretzels for the love of frenzied, myopic special interests, who think that smart politics means complaining about the cost of Bush's trip to the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln rather than finding some alternative and more inspirational way to capture the public's attention. If the Democrats want to transcend their perpetual pickiness, their inability to rise above the bite-size, they are going to have to find a candidate talented and fearless enough to meet the public without...
...With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got." GEORGE W. BUSH, speaking aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln...
...took no small amount of jostling to get there. Though the White House first insisted that Bush had to fly in a jet, rather than the customary helicopter, because the carrier would be hundreds of miles out to sea, that turned out not to be true: the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was just 39 miles from shore. (Still, Bush spent part of last Tuesday taking a water-emergency training course at the White House pool, in case he was forced to eject into the Pacific.) Then there was the carrier's position, which had to be tilted to obscure any view...
...latest is that he’s a ruthless political opportunist. Objecting to Bush’s appearance on board the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln in a flight suit, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman complains, “The Constitution declares the president commander-in-chief of the armed forces to make it clear that civilians, not the military, hold ultimate authority. That’s why American presidents traditionally make a point of avoiding military affectations...