"Democrats worry that President Bush is slumping too soon. Six months from now, with the economy surging at a 4 percent rate and peace breaking out in the Greater Middle East, today's seeming-underdog incumbent could easily come roaring back to win going away."
William Safire is going to be the last human being (possibly the last carbon-based lifeform) to recognize, or at least to admit, that the USA is getting bogged down in a nightmare in Iraq that is not going to end early or well (certainly not both).
He may be right about the economy (I'm not sure any recovery will be uniformly spread enough to help Bush in states like Ohio and Michigan), but I don't see any easy solution to Iraq. What's worse, based on his press conference last night, neither does George W. Bush.
I suppose Safire could be trying to fool us. But it certainly sounds as if he has succeeded in fooling himself.
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Tom Beck
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"I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd see the last." - Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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