Friday, October 27, 2000
Presidents ... set the political tone for the rest of the system. People should look at next month's election as a choice not between Gore and Bush, but between a mildly liberal political scene and a rabidly conservative political scene.
Posted: 12:54 AM
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Tuesday, October 24, 2000
That's what a man of the people does, turns a charge of incapacity into a gag at the expense of the accuser. ... Thus does George W. Bush of Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School, a chip off his father's pork rinds, appeal to his audience's resentment of brains. ... Bush auditions for entertainer in chief, playing to know-nothings who resent the idea that there are people who know more about anything than they do. ... No presidential candidate ever went broke betting on the anti-intellectualism of the American people.
— Todd Gitlin in
an article on Salon arguing that George W. Bush's mental lapses are a sign that he believes reasoning is not important and that his upbringing meant he never had to.
Posted: 11:51 PM
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The issue is not whether we're going to change but how we're going to change. ... We tried it our way for eight years; we tried it their way for 12 years before. Our way works better than their way. We need to keep changing in the right direction to keep the prosperity going in America.
Posted: 12:36 AM
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Wednesday, October 04, 2000
As some pundits and commentators saw it, George W. Bush could earn a high score in last night's presidential debate just by failing to make a complete fool of himself. It's a strange way to define success, but by that standard Bush did indeed pull it off.
— Washington Post
columnist Tom Shales in his critique of the first debate, in which he decided no one "won".
Posted: 12:27 AM
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