As observers, reporters, and commentators we will hold him to the highest standards of honesty and performance. Largely at the insistence of Democrats and moderate Republicans, the Bush cuts gave middle-class families some relief in the form of refunds, bigger child credits, and a smaller marriage penalty.
Before this war, we had persuaded ourselves and the world that our military might was effectively infinite.
However, nobody in Washington expects them to go away on schedule; they were designated as temporary only to make their ultimate results look less scary.
Largely at the insistence of Democrats and moderate Republicans, the Bush cuts gave middle-class families some relief in the form of refunds, bigger child credits, and a smaller marriage penalty. Patriot Act through a compliant Congress. In a second Bush term, the Court could be remade in their images. The arrests have continued, but eventually the Administration simply stopped saying how many people were and are being held.
The failed armed intervention in Somalia and the successful ones in the Balkans are other examples.
But the challenger has more to offer than the fact that he is not George W.
Some animated shows on the cable channel also have been focusing on the election.
Is it any wonder that the anger felt by many Democrats is even greater than can be explained by the profound differences in outlook between the two candidates and their parties? Warlords control much of Afghanistan outside the capital of Kabul, which is the extent of the territorial writ of the decent but beleaguered President Hamid Karzai.
But this election is anything but ordinary.
Patriot Act through a compliant Congress.
Nowhere has his solipsism been more damaging than in the case of Iraq. Even the highly touted No Child Left Behind education program, enacted with the support of the liberal lion Edward Kennedy, is being allowed to fail, on account of grossly inadequate funding.
Kerry accused President George W.
About others there are legitimate concerns.
Many of its provisions, such as allowing broader information-sharing among investigative agencies, are sensible.
Opium production has increased fortyfold. And for many voters the desire to see the damage arrested is reason enough to vote for John Kerry. Paul Bremer, the former administrator for Iraq, said in a speech this week that the U.
There are rules for settling electoral disputes of this kind, in federal and state law and in the Constitution itself. Kerry accused President George W. While Bush has pandered relentlessly to the narrowest urges of his base, Kerry has sought to appeal broadly to the American center.
He made no such effort. Even the highly touted No Child Left Behind education program, enacted with the support of the liberal lion Edward Kennedy, is being allowed to fail, on account of grossly inadequate funding.
Opium production has increased fortyfold.
The arrests have continued, but eventually the Administration simply stopped saying how many people were and are being held.
Before this war, we had persuaded ourselves and the world that our military might was effectively infinite.
The toll of Iraqi dead and wounded is of an order of magnitude greater than the American.
Jobs, health care, education, and the rest may not count for much when weighed against the prospect of large-scale terrorist attack.
While Bush has pandered relentlessly to the narrowest urges of his base, Kerry has sought to appeal broadly to the American center. Because of the way the votes were distributed, however, the outcome in the electoral college turned on the outcome in Florida.