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...balled, itching for a fight--you ain't seen nothin' yet!--even though his entire platform amounts to massaging the feet of the middle class every bit as faithfully as Bill Clinton has these past eight years. Bush's message meanwhile is so soothing--Can't we all just get along?--and yet his reforms of Medicare and Social Security and education offer more change than anything either party has proposed in years--and that's just the agenda he admits to. No wonder it's confusing...
Inevitably and sometimes exasperatingly, the bulk of a President's day is spent in meetings. And while Bush chafes at that prospect, he isn't daunted by it: "I don't like to sit around in meetings for hours and hours and hours. I get to the point. I think the ability to run a good meeting is a sign of good leadership," he says. The typical Bush meeting begins with an adviser making a presentation. But instead of listening patiently, Bush interrupts, peppering the adviser with questions. Sometimes the questions seem startlingly basic. During a briefing last year...
...TIME/CNN poll last week, Americans feel so hopeful that fully 19% of them think they are in that top 1%, and an additional 20% expect to be one day. It turns out to be Bush who makes a fairness case: Why shouldn't everyone who pays taxes get a tax cut? And in a twist of the knife, he has even made it a kind of character test, a symbol of courage and constancy. "I haven't changed my position on this issue," Bush said last week in Missouri. "I haven't fine-tuned my message. I have said...
...then there is Bush himself: he promises that what you see is what you get, but then look at what you get: in Texas he tried for huge, sweeping tax reform, but when only half of it passed, he said he was fine with that. So which part of his current tax plan is he willing to compromise over, the part his party donors expect or the part that the $22,000 mom is counting on? Who's winking at whom? Whose fingers are crossed...
Something is likely to change forever next Tuesday night. It sure would be nice to know what. For an electorate caught in times of harrowing change--when the day starts with a choice of 15 kinds of coffee and five ways to get your e-mail, and your kids have more homework in grade school than you had in college, and you sometimes feel grateful for traffic jams just because they give you time to think--the last thing we want from politics is more uncertainty. And for voters who don't want any more change, these two clever, complicated...