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January 20: Bush, in his inaugural address, pledges to make this country a "kindler, gentler nation" by expediting procedures necessary to murder hundreds of inmates currently on death row, and by passing legislation which will allow the slaughter of scores of "drug kingpins...
...American politics. One of the greatest ironies of this election has been that while George Bush was bashing and mischaracterizing liberal principles, he kidnapped the mainstream liberal positions of the Democratic Party--daycare, education, the environment and defense of the middle class. Bush said he wanted a "kindler, gentler" nation and he realized his more conservative side--which grants tax breaks to the rich and wages negative campaigns--couldn't bring that about...
Michael S. Duakkis is not a stirring orator. He is not a charismatic leader. He is not liberalism's shining Knight. But he is right on the issues. He would make America both kinder and gentler, more equitable and more just, more secure at home and more respected abroad. We do not need another four years of fantasy. Nor do we need four more years of illusionary prosperity. It is time for reality, and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis is the best one to cope with...
...Republican strategy as you well know was developed way back in the spring. Bush was making speeches attacking me in May. Look, everybody expects a certain amount of jabbing and poking at conventions. I mean they had their convention. I don't recall that it was a "kinder, gentler" convention the way it painted Mike Dukakis, do you? The last kinder, gentler period in the Bush campaign was just terminated after 24 hours...
...something ethic, while Bush represents mainstream Republican skepticism of new Government programs. That choice undergirds the election, but never have the terms of philosophic battle been defined for the voters. This vagueness provides protective camouflage for Bush, who has artfully used evocative phrases like "a kinder, gentler nation" to mask the passivity of his domestic agenda. He has, to be sure, advanced his own proposals on education and day care, but they do not seem to spring from deep personal conviction. ! Rather, they have been offered to the voters -- and may someday even be enacted into law -- to take...