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...Kacyvenski, a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award as the best player in Division 1-AA, and a projected NFL player, is the unquestioned leader...
What's bad for the U.S. trade balance could be very good for Pat Buchanan - at least for a little while. The isolationist presidential candidate may want to put a few more volunteers on his switchboard after Thursday's Commerce Department announcement that the U.S. racked up a $24.4 billion trade deficit in September - 3.7 percent higher than it was the month before. That's bad news for American manufacturers, who have lost a half million jobs since 1998 as worldwide exports of U.S. goods continue to fall...
...Leading Republican candidates George W. Bush and John McCain gave it similarly cautious approval. So as disenchanted as the trade deal may leave labor, it's unlikely to change the voting preferences of those who wouldn't contemplate deserting the big parties for anti-free trade insurgent Pat Buchanan. But Gore needs more than just a grudging vote from labor: He needs its money spent on campaign ads endorsing his positions and its grassroots activists getting out the vote. If labor chooses to fight hard against the China deal, its enthusiasm for Gore is likely to be muted...
Finally, let us examine Buchanan as hick, a fruit-loop, a crazy, lunatic cave-dweller. Unfortunately, this sort of ridicule does not work as a social value defense strategy. It does not persuade people of the benefits of open markets, international engagement, immigration, racial and religious tolerance. Satiric witticisms amuse us at Harvard (or those of us in Sydney) but simply serve to reinforce the suspicion of many Americans that the intellectual and political elite are laughing at them. Pat Buchanan is not a joke. He is a social specter hidden behind a political shroud...
Bush speaks convincingly about how important it is for a leader to assemble a trustworthy cadre of advisers. And he argues that there is no percentage, as Governor or as President, in trying to master every subject or micromanage every decision. But as Bruce Buchanan, a political scientist at the University of Texas in Austin, says, "Bush is trying to turn his weakness into a virtue. He's not a policy wonk, so he has to rely on people who are." And there is a risk to that approach, adds Buchanan, who is an admirer: "Bush's biggest weakness...