What sort of relationship are you looking for?

With clarity and dismay I recall one of the news media's prevailing questions that was asked of voters during the Bush-Gore 2000 presidential campaign: "Who would you rather have a beer with?" As much on any individual factor, votes went to George W. Bush because he was more "likeable." He was more "like us." A near-completely bumbling idiot, but one that was likeable.

 

Similarly today, far-right Christian evangelicals are lining up behind Michele -- "they [the founding fathers] worked tirelessly until slavery was no more" -- Bachmann because she "speaks our code, she's "one of us."

 

The question, perhaps the single most important one every American should ask of him- or herself is, what do you want in a leader; the individual to whom you will be entrusting the national checkbook and the keys to the nuclear arsenal? Review of Larry O'Donnell's "Rewrite" video is a good place to begin.    -- Ed Tubbs, Tenino, WA             

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