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...also be the canniest. And having assumed the awesome responsibilities of the job, President Bush would have to show that he can be both everybody's friend and nobody's fool. Which is why, for voters, casting a ballot on Nov. 7 is both a choice of one imperfect man over another and a prayer for something better...
Forgiveness is one tough cookie. But because people are inherently imperfect, there often arises a need to either forgive or receive forgiveness. An unwillingness to forgive often (if not always) backfires and creates more pain, and holding grudges can separate families, end friendships and even divide countries...
...plan of Vice President Gore is also somewhat imperfect. At a cost of roughly $500 billion with interest, the program is considerably more reasonable than Bush's tax splurge. Yet the many targeted tax components would add a number of new exceptions to the tax code, and there is a virtue in simplicity, especially when political logrolling is an ever-present threat. In many ways, the credits proposed by Gore represent spending programs under a different name. But the aims of the programs are admirable: we are very glad to see Gore's proposal to expand the EITC, a program...
...would look at the morally fascinating Nader Temptation - the dilemma of those who must decide whether to preserve their indignant purity by voting for Ralph Nader, thereby helping to elect George Bush, or whether to go with the imperfect but serviceable vehicle of their principles, Al Gore. A classic bind, with psychological roots in the Glorious Lost Cause mentality - virtue going down in flames, uncompromised...
...around the stretch they come, baring their teeth and shaking their fists and raising their arms and smiling. George W. Bush and Al Gore, the two imperfect major-party candidates for president. Two weeks to go, and the thing is so close its shape is barely perceptible...