Word: hug
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Skepticism is sometimes a substitute for apathy and vagueness a cover for ignorance. When lives are being taken, it is not enough to simply hide behind the banner of neutrality or seek the warmth of a group hug for world peace. When one side is more powerful than the other, neutrality means complicity with the strong...
...Bush, the bogeymen are just as scary - a large and intrusive federal government, a sickly military and moral collapse. But rather than wrestle these problems to the ground as Gore does, the Texas governor proposes to hug them into submission. In La Crosse, Wis., last Wednesday he was in the groove, having long ago replaced the snarly candidate of the South Carolina primaries who had trouble hiding the coiled tensions within. Displayed instead was a sunny persona, a peaceful, easy feelin', complete with dropped g's, that crowds and cameras were soaking up. Promising to end "finger pointin' and partisan...
...George Bush wins in November, Ted Kennedy should brace himself for a big hug. In Debate No. 3, Bush made the case that all we need is love. He wished for a law he could sign mandating it and a planet where we would all "love a neighbor like you would like to be loved yourself." Love, not partisan wrangling, will produce policies that will leave no child behind and extend the life of Social Security while permitting yuppies to day trade the trust fund. How many candidates oppose love or favor leaving a child behind...
...Bush has made a virtue out of resorting to his heart instead of his head. "Insurance," he sniffed. "That's a Washington term." Bush's way is to hug his opponents, as he did when he made a house call on the late Bob Bullock, who was the Lieutenant Governor in Texas and ran the state senate. But in a way, Bush had no choice; under the Texas system, the Lieutenant Governor is as powerful as, if not more so than, the Governor. In Washington, however, there is no single superpower to embrace, and a different ethic. You can share...
...change enough hearts. So he fudged his earlier statement that he would seek to overturn approval of the drug, saying a President is powerless to do so against the Food and Drug Administration. He got lost in a hypothetical financial crisis and said he would hug his way out of a domestic one. On his signature tax cut, he kept criticizing "the man's" (that would be Gore's) "fuzzy math." But when he couldn't rebut the Gore argument that nearly one-half of his tax cut would end up enriching the top 1% of Americans, it was Bush...