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...genius of this scurrilous political work is that it is being done just at the moment when George W. Bush really is behaving like a f------ moron. His operation is the Original Austin Amateur Hour. Dubya's tractionless, spluttering campaign, belching smoke and throwing rods, seeming to do everything wrong post-Labor Day - arguing idiotically about the debates, for example - seems in itself to dramatize the supposed brain deficit that has been the subject of whispers and eye-rollings for months...
Note to George Dubya: so you think voters aren't smart enough to have got it right when they voted for Bill Clinton [CAMPAIGN 2000, Aug. 14]? Face it: Clinton may not be much of a man, but he's a near perfect politician. American voters probably think they can't have one without the other. With the peace and prosperity we enjoy, Clinton is likely to be remembered as a fine President, victimized by our cultural obsession with celebrity scandal while being its ideal representative. He's the mirror of our times, the quintessential baby-boomer American--lofty ideals...
...Bush's case literally: His 30-second "Education Agenda" opens with him on the podium in Philadelphia, decrying that "seven of ten fourth graders in our highest-poverty schools cannot read a simple children's book." (That sentence, by the way, I believe consitutes the most consecutive numbers Dubya has yet strung together in a public speech...
...fact these are such controversial, powder-keg statements that, as we'll see in a minute, Al Gore says them pretty much verbatim in his latest commercial. "Or we have a budget surplus and a deficit in values." Yeah, those are really... um... fightin' words, Dubya. He goes on to defiantly vow to "be bold and decisive, to unite instead of divide" - but really the point here is the approachable, homey candidate that these ads present, as contrasted with the harsh tone of his father's campaigns. It's political restoration via Restoration Hardware...
Which is why Cheney had such an unfair advantage. Unlike him, the others hadn't been on the phone constantly with the candidate for three months, sharing confidences, offering advice and proving their worthiness. They hadn't visited Bush in the Governor's Mansion and out at Dubya's new ranch near Waco, where the two had sat on the porch, taking in the endless view of the central Texas desert. And they had never bonded, as Bush and Cheney had, over their love of the West's open spaces, their shared conservative philosophy and their experiences...