Word: nationals
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...pseudo issues of patriotism and crime has almost been rivaled by Dukakis' timorous inability to articulate a rationale for his candidacy. From canned rhetoric recited off TelePrompTers to the omnipresent voice-overs of deceptive campaign ads, the candidates' messages have woefully failed to clarify the choice facing the nation...
...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...
...Vice President, to be sure, has far greater firsthand knowledge of East-West relations and the concerns of European allies. But Dukakis would bring to the presidency an equally strong instinctive understanding of the economic threats to the nation's security from both Japan and an increasingly integrated European Community...
...there is one indelible difference between the two that could take on central importance if the nation faced an unforeseen terrorist threat or new left-wing insurgency in Latin America. Their diametrically opposed attitudes toward military intervention and covert operations are very much a product of their life experiences. Bush is the first former CIA director to seek the White House; Dukakis was an exchange student in Peru at the time of the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala. Small wonder that Bush retains a hawkish can-do faith in covert action; Dukakis is a multilateralist keenly aware...
Maybe Bush is right, that the choice ultimately comes down to a question of values. What beliefs do the American people want to embrace in the last years of the century that brought the nation to greatness? The election of Bush would be a vote for stability, for conservative continuity and, yes, for upholding the limited-Government legacy of Ronald Reagan, while smoothing off some of its rough ideological edges. Dukakis offers more of a risk and potentially more of a reward. His selection would mark a return to more communal values, as the nation gave liberalism another chance...