must read from NY Observer

[rlev1223]

http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/frontpage8.asp

Robert Anson on Repub ruthlessness, Dem timidity
and Kerry

[AmerDem]

1. you should always post a few paragraphs

to give us an idea of what the article is about. maximum allowed is 4 ( copyright law ) and give link to the main article.

[rlev1223]

3. done

from article at
http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/frontpage8.asp

.........Candidate beau ideal, Mr. Kerry is not, as privately admitted by his ever-changing cast of handlers—which, with the recent addition of Joe Lockhart as press secretary, is looking more and more like Clinton Redux, less and less like Kennedy Restoration. Still, you’d think he’d be having a better time of it, given the shape the country’s in. Take last week’s Census Bureau report: It found 35.9 million Americans—12.9 million of them children—living in poverty (up four million from when Bill moved to Chappaqua); 45 million without health insurance (an increase of 1.5 million since the start of Dubya’s "corner turn"); and average family incomed eclining since the supposed end of the supposedly tax-cut-killed recession. The wealthiest Americans, however, have been doing swell; their income’s gone up. As for the party registration of most of these fortunates, take a guess.

Add two million jobs lost during Mr. Bush’s tenure (the first time that’s happened since a Republican President named Hoover); an annual budget deficit running roundabout half a trillion; Iraq K.I.A.’s nearing the magic 1,000 mark; Osama still on the loose; the Bill of Rights going piecemeal into the toilet; and basically the whole world hating us—suck on that, and there seems ample cause for the squire of Crawford, Tex., to be preparing for brush-cutting full-time.

Instead, it’s Democrats who are despairing. Is Karl Rove really that smart? Is John Kerry really that awful?

Or is something else at work—an X-factor that has to do with the nature of the two major political parties, and the differing lengths to which they will (and will not) go to win elections............

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Here's four paragraphs.................

New York Observer

by Robert Sam Anson

Once upon a time, Republicans were pretty much like everybody else. Only richer.

The dads ran plants and offices; were doctors and lawyers and businessmen; belonged to Kiwanis and Rotary; groused about social programs and the taxes they had to pay to support them; played golf at nice country clubs and bought Buicks every other year.

The moms oversaw spotless suburban houses, wore gloves and went to teas; belonged to the P.T.A., the Ladies Auxiliary and the garden club; volunteered at the local hospital and mounted can drives for the underprivileged; and never, ever questioned that father really did know best.

They were salts-of-the earth who attended the Episcopal or Presbyterian church every Sunday; wanted a strong defense so the country would never have to go to war unless somebody bombed Pearl Harbor; and asked of government only that it leave them alone. Folks, in short, like Gerald and Betty Ford. A little dull, maybe, but O.K.

[hedda_foil]

4. A little dull, maybe, but O.K.

Exactly. Those are the Republicans of old. Boring as hell, but steady.

[blue neen]

5. That's a good article.

[Lizzie Borden]

7. I second that.

It was well written and thought out.

[merh]

6. So he debunks all those crazy myth's and Bob Dole's greatness

at the same time he questions the voting tactics of Jebby and the ruthlessness of the repukes' campaign. I sure like this article!
Thanks for the link!