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...they pursue their narrow self-interests. This was a moment for ego massage. "Had any of you decided that you didn't want to get something done," Bush said, "the process would have cratered." California Democrat George Miller was worried that there was not enough money. "Let's not pretend the education establishment is happy," Miller said...
...Hate and love are the wrong words to describe how Americans feel about the President. I am not emotional about the man Bush. It is the Bush Administration and its unilateralism that scare me. How can the U.S. pretend to promote democracy in the world when it is such a poor team player in the U.N., the only global democratic body we have? Barbara M. Tull Delaware...
President Clinton’s speech provoked a momentary stir—more a comparison of his style and that of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., though, than a serious discussion of the issues he raised. Teresa Heinz Kerry changed our focus, but I won’t pretend that her money, her Botox, and her almost laughably self-serious mien drew less attention than the substance, as such, of her Evita-like oration. John Kerry, with a salute and tough declarative prose, crossed the commander-in-chief threshold Thursday night and dominated the conversation for about the 30 minutes...
...wonders, "in an ecosystem in which the resources we may require are winking in and winking out, unpredictably and out of our control? Technology may not be able to help enough to prevent this catastrophe from consuming us as well. We're attempting to step outside the system and pretend we're not a part of it. And the moment you start to do that, you're inviting the system to cut you off, and you drop off like a bit of dandruff. I don't think we're slated for great things at this point." The solution? Archer...
...could translate into supporting Pennsylvania's pro-choice Arlen Specter (as Santorum has) to maintain the Senate majority of the Republican Party, which skews antiabortion. Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo once famously suggested that "prudential" latitude might involve voting pro-choice because recriminalizing abortion would allow people to pretend they had solved the problem while merely pushing it underground...