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...Even when his views were most intransigentwhen he wondered out loud whether Martin Luther King Jr. was a communist or failed for nearly all of his presidency to speak the word AIDS even onceReagan gave Reaganism a human face. "He made us sunny optimists," says Bush political adviser Karl Rove. "His was a conservatism of laughter and openness and community...
...charm must be part of the reason, and it will be difficult for Kerry to battle a gut feeling most Americans have about the president, whom many voters continue to deem decisive and trustworthy. But Bush’s excellent campaign staff—including spin maestro Karl Rove and the likable Texas twang of Karen Hughes—is another big Bush asset. The president’s own Texas-tinted brain trust has already demonstrated its willingness to exploit the tragedy of September 11, 2001 in the campaign’s first round of ads, which prominently feature...
...fact, with the exception of Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi-rally film Triumph of the Will, it's hard to think of a right-wing documentary. Nor was Moore alone in his obsession with the Republican elite. Among the festival screenings were the documentary Bush's Brain (about adviser Karl Rove) and a fact-based drama, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. But Fahrenheit 9/11 had all the hot press. And it more than lived up to its advance...
...didn't strike back "big time," it would be perceived as weak. (Crushing the peripheral Taliban and staying focused on rooting out al-Qaeda cells wasn't "big" enough.) The President may have had some personal motives--doing to Saddam Hussein what his father didn't; filling out Karl Rove's prescription of a strong leader; making the world safe for his friends in the energy industry. The neoconservatives had ulterior motives too: almost all were fervent believers in the state of Israel and, as a prominent Turkish official told me last week, "they didn't want Saddam's rockets...
...didn't strike back "big time," it would be perceived as weak. (Crushing the peripheral Taliban and staying focused on rooting out al-Qaeda cells wasn't "big" enough.) The President may have had some personal motives-doing to Saddam Hussein what his father didn't; filling out Karl Rove's prescription of a strong leader; making the world safe for his friends in the energy industry. The neoconservatives had ulterior motives too: almost all were fervent believers in the state of Israel and, as a prominent Turkish official told me last week, "they didn't want Saddam's rockets...