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...unhelpful, says Tow, if the country is seen as too subservient to the U.S. Thanks to a clever headline in an Australian magazine, the impression is widespread in Asia that Australia's Prime Minister sees himself as Bush's "deputy sheriff." That image has been damaging, says Tow. The reality since Howard took office has been a steady strengthening of ties with Asia in trade, diplomacy, law enforcement and counterterrorism. But "in Asia, style is often substance," and the "deputy sheriff" image is one Labor is particularly anxious to dispel...
...read them. Bill Clinton was a master: it was a focus group that taught him that it was better to "invest" in education than to "spend" on it. Clinton also knew when to ignore the polls, as he did on the Mexican bailout. Most pols aren't so clever, though. This year John Kerry and George W. Bush are relying on ancient market-tested formulations like (in Kerry's case) "Health care is a right, not a privilege" and (in Bush's case) "You know how to spend your money better than the government does." Which leads me to wonder...
...besides, Bush has already got his plate too full with Kerry to be worrying about leftovers like bin Laden. I’ve got to hand it to Bush: “Fuzzy math” was pretty clever, but “flip-flop” just might be a new personal best...
Taken together, Bush’s amiable prevarications and Cheney’s clever malice just might spell a winning ticket. In a sense, they’ve already won a personal victory: they have transformed their public image from that of tongue-tied oratorical brutes to veritable acrobats of rhetoric. If that doesn’t count as a flip-flop, I don’t know what does...
Except for the elections--which seem highly unlikely at this point--all of Bush's statements have the virtue of being either true, truish or unprovable. His argument is tight, concise and, so far, impregnable. It is also a clever distortion of reality. If the National Intelligence Estimate is accurate, we are facing a far more dangerous world than existed before the war. Many intelligence and military experts now believe that al-Qaeda has rebuilt its leadership structure and metastasized; that the U.S. military is overburdened and its leaders are likely to tell the next President that they lack...