Word: bushed
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...been different on foreign-policy issues, on which Clinton can seem as inattentive as most Americans. Even for initiatives as important as the test-ban treaty, which was supposed to consolidate four decades of bipartisan arms-control efforts, Clinton failed to prepare the ground of public opinion. While the Bush Administration prefaced the Gulf War with months of explanations, NATO's bombing campaign against Serbia this year seemed to come out of nowhere. So on foreign policy, Republicans have sensed an opening to humiliate a President they could not topple, even if that means discarding the tattered remains...
...implications go beyond the subcontinent. "The perception more broadly [is] that we don't know what we're doing," says Bush Administration CIA chief Robert Gates, who opposed the treaty as written but--like many Senators, including many Republicans--favored a delay of the vote over a wholesale rejection. "When you're the only superpower, that's a very dangerous situation to be in, when people around the world...haven't got a clue what you're going to do next...
...reason to smile. What doesn't play in Washington does in New Hampshire. Polls show that McCain's support in that state has jumped 10 points in the past month, leaving him with 21% of likely Republican primary voters, compared with 40% for George W. Bush. New Hampshire has a history of scarring front runners who lope into the state with a lead. Now that Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Dole have receded in state surveys, McCain is the only challenger who appears to have traction. He has also won endorsements from several state representatives and the beloved former Senator Warren...
...Austin, Texas, the Bush team is starting to notice. "He is the one we worry most about," says a Granite State adviser to the campaign. That used to be the position occupied by Forbes, but the multimillionaire publisher has not managed in over a year to close his nearly 20-point deficit with Bush in the key state of Iowa. The Texas Governor's campaign staff is worried that any damage Forbes may do through his planned negative ads will not help Forbes, but will turn voters to McCain. Perhaps feeling the pressure, Bush announced last week that he would...
...Bradley recently issued statements emphasizing their commitment to the pro-choice cause; Gore referred directly to the Senate's Roe v. Wade vote, noting America is "perilously close" to having an anti-abortion majority in the Senate. Yesterday's vote also provoked an uncharacteristically blunt comment from George W. Bush, who called late-term abortion "inhumane," and urged President Clinton to sign the bill. This is a new tack for Bush, but it's one we'll be seeing more of, as TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak told CNN. "Bush has been getting a pass from a lot of conservative...