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...Clinton Show than the first of Bush's, the new President's address last Tuesday had the air of a second Inauguration. In a real sense, it marked the beginning of his presidency, the moment when the new guy started filling his suit. The performance was, well, Clintonian in its easy embrace of the other party's ideas--more funding for education and health research, protection for national parks, even an end to racial profiling--headed up by John Ashcroft, no less...
...past two weeks, Washington has been hosing down China with acid, suggesting that a high-tech Chinese fiber-optic system was helping Saddam or last week announcing plans for a protest of Chinese human-rights violations. George Bush promised during the campaign that he would not make the Clintonian "mistake" of treating the Chinese as "strategic partners." Enough to rattle windows in Beijing. "Jesus," says a diplomat who helped press the pillowy strategy of trade and talk in the '90s. "Talk about a Great Wall...
...course, it may not be as simple as Ray's deciding whether or not to go ahead: Ray's continuing investigation creates a complex (and very Clintonian) triangle of power, stretching from Ray himself to Bush and the GOP back to Clinton...
...change is in order. We have Gore, whose victory would represent an endorsement of the Clintonian ethos. And we have Bush, who asks, "Where's the wisdom in America? I believe it's with the people. I trust the people." Those are the simple words of a common man who has been lucky in life--who made the most of his chances, made his mistakes, corrected them, became serious, began to love God, came to trust him. The trust spread within him and became a habit; in time it gave shape to his policies...
...Less than 24 hours before Election Day, the undecideds - the only ones who might have been influenced by any Clintonian aspects of the governor's version of full disclosure - have officially been left to their reveries and their couches by the media and the two candidates. (Arguably, Bush's "uniter, not divider" stuff is independent-aimed, but for the crowds he's working, it's just anti-Clinton code.) The national election is apparently in the hands of Florida seniors, Michigan auto workers and African-Americans, and to what degree Al Gore can get them all to turn...