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...President. But there's a good chance that the U.S. is less safe, not more. Other countries, like Iran, have seen us invade Iraq under false pretenses. Isn't it possible they could develop nuclear weapons as a deterrent to invasion? Some say voters shouldn't change horses in midstream, but maybe people should question whether the President who got us into such a mess is the person we should trust to lead us out. Don Edwards Oak Park...
...President. But there's a good chance that the U.S. is less safe, not more. Other countries, like Iran, have seen us invade Iraq under false pretenses. Isn't it possible they could develop nuclear weapons as a deterrent to invasion? Some say voters shouldn't change horses in midstream, but maybe people should question whether the President who got us into such a mess is the person we should trust to lead...
...means death, even as they have to leap onto wet rocks themselves to unsnag the rafts. We pull our little craft on ropes, use them as bridges to clamber over, tugging them as we inch backward along narrow ledges above frothing water. We push and pull them over boulders midstream, dropping them in the water on the other side and jumping into them one by one. Adrenaline flows as fast as the current, and we eat lunch ravenously atop a huge boulder onto which we've dragged the rafts, its surface so uneven we edge warily around them...
...Gallup poll, the President's approval rating on the issue of terrorism was nearly 30 points higher than that of Democratic challenger John Kerry. Suddenly it looked to some Democrats as if Bush's main argument for re-election--that the world is too dangerous to change horses in midstream--could at least be neutralized...
...Hampshire, Kerry fared best among those looking for experience and leadership, Dean with those in search of change. Dean's fate so far suggests he may be asking for too much. In uncertain times it's never natural for voters to change leaders midstream, and to ask them to embrace wholesale revolution may be enough to inspire a movement but not enough to unseat a popular and well-funded incumbent. If Democrats are making that calculation, then John Kerry seems to represent about the amount of revolution they think the country can handle at the moment. --With reporting by James...