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I got a big kick out of the President's visit to Baghdad, as I'm sure many people did. I mean, he lied to the press, but that wasn't even the best part. I think this is likely to have little effect on how people vote next fall — at this point, anyone who dislikes the President will find a way to criticize this, likely either as too reckless or as too gutless with all the secrecy that was involved — but it seems an opportunity to note again why these things aren't irrelevant; if you're thinking, "I still don't like the Medicare bill, but damn it, I like this man," here's your intellectual defense: The single most important event of this Presidential term factored into approximately zero votes cast in November of 2000. We certainly don't know in particular what the next five years will bring, and we don't even know for certain in broad outline what the issues will be, where the appropriate compromises should be drawn, or how they should be brought about. Many of an intellectual bent, even we on the right on occassion, will focus on ideology, on ideas and platform, with an occasional tendency to forget that we're electing a human being, for the very good reason that many important things aren't going to be encapsulated in the analysis of his positions, particularly those we would think to ask him about today. Much that is not there encapsulated is encapsulated in a decision to slip out on his family to show up to cheer on the troops, and it speaks well of him. |
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