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Andrew N de la Torre
Citizen
Username: Delatorre
Post Number: 182
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 6:36 am: |     |
An interesting editorial
http://nytimes.com/2004/02/01/opinion/01FRIE.html |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1939
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 9:26 am: | |
Tom Friedman is very bright, and he's also not a staunch leftist (as I am) or a rightist. So I figure he thinks for himself and examines the issues carefully. He gives both sides a fair amount of criticism, which they deserve.
Thanks for all the food for thought. I can only hope America will take at least a bite.
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
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Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1940
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 9:37 am: | |
In that editorial, Friedman quotes Peterson's book:
quote:As Peter Peterson, the former Nixon commerce secretary and a longtime courageous advocate of fiscal responsibility, puts it in "Running on Empty," his forthcoming book: "In the 1980 election, Ronald Reagan galvanized the American electorate with that famous riff: `I want to ask every American: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?'"
In my memory, it was Clinton who posed that question in 1992. Is my memory defective? Or did Reagan say it in 1980 and did Clinton echo him in 1992?
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
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Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey
Post Number: 519
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, February 1, 2004 - 2:19 pm: | |
I believe both Reagan and Clinton posed the question.
If the Dem candidate asks it in '04, voters respond truthfully, and actually base their vote on the result, W is toast.
but somehow his spinners seem to be able to convince a lot of people that they should vote for the guy precisely because things are worse now. |
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