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Tuesday, November 19, 2002 |
Great article by Joe Conason today, especially on President Bush's reliance on polling data -- something his handlers have always positioned him as disdaining.
A good excerpt:
... Bush was "preoccupied by public perceptions of the war, looking at polling data from Rove, now his senior adviser, even after pretending to have no interest." How remarkable to be told so bluntly about this Bush obsession -- after hearing so many blabbermouths on cable TV and in opinion columns insist that this president, unlike his predecessor, "doesn't care about polls." The difference between Clinton and Bush isn't that one doesn't care about polls and the other did. The difference is that Clinton never pretended that polling data wasn't part of his political work, and didn't expect anyone on his staff to lie about such trivia. (This matrix of deception is likewise exposed in Woodward's scoop about the back-channel advice on public opinion provided to the White House by Fox News chief Roger Ailes. An old Bush family employee, Ailes runs a network that frequently promotes the false but uplifting notion that Bush has no interest in polls.)
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The U.S. government and media rail against fundamentalist Muslims, but then fundamentailist Christians in this country fight like mad to weave religion into government. The pledge of allegiance flap was a good example. I, for one, am a person who attends church who does not want religion to bleed over into government. Doing so starts us on a slippery slope. Having a secular government does not necessarily mean an immoral one just because it is free of religious entanglements.
Thankfully, the courts in Alabama rendered a decision to remove a Ten Commandments monument from the rotunda of a judicial building in Montgomery. A good decision. Afterall, imagine what fundamentalist Christians would think if a monument of the Torah or Koran was erected in the courthouse. You'd never hear the end of it from Jerry Falwell and his minions.
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