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...also be an irritant to his boss. Bush doesn't appreciate the widely held view that Rove is the brain behind the candidate, and he has publicly reprimanded Rove for being too chummy with the press. During one rough stretch in 1998, according to other insiders, Rove was even barred from the Governor's office (a story Rove insists isn't true). But mostly Bush keeps Rove in line by keeping him off-balance, as he did last spring, when Rove's cellular phone started chirping in the middle of a high-level campaign meeting. The interruption annoyed Bush...
...listening. For Mrs. Clinton--and now we really are being fair--is not the only politician who is lending us her ears. "Listening" has become mandatory in a state-of-the-art campaign, regardless of the candidate's party or ideology. As he was preparing his campaign, George W. Bush made clear he wasn't going to be a chatterbox, either. "I need to go out and listen to what people have to say," he said, by way of explaining why he refuses to tell us what he has to say. At events in Iowa and New Hampshire, Bill Bradley...
When it was reported that Senate minority Leader Tom Daschle told a gaggle of Washington reporters he thought George W. Bush had the right to refuse to answer questions about his long-past personal behavior, including inquiries about whether he ever used cocaine, the cheers went up. "Right, just leave him alone. Who cares what he did when he was young?" Or, from the Governor's boomer cohort: "Who didn't try drugs back then...
Which brings us back to George W. Bush. Surely few care that he may have had a wild youth, if that means he dated many women or drank too much from time to time. But what about the illegal use of cocaine? Tens of thousands of Americans are serving mandatory jail sentences for having been caught with cocaine or its variant, crack. If Bush did try cocaine, how does that square with his support of Texas legislation putting those caught with less than a gram of the drug in jail...
...young man asked Bush during a campaign event in Iowa recently whether the candidate had used cocaine. Bush said he wasn't answering that sort of question. The questioner then asked whether candidates should be disqualified if such use occurred. Bush said no, "if they've learned their lesson." O.K., but what about the people in jail who may have learned their lessons...