Friday, November 04, 2005
By Patrick Basham
With the White House shrouded in scandal, the biggest obstacle to George W. Bush’s political comeback is that he’s no Bill Clinton.
The heaviest millstone around the president’s political neck isn’t the case against Scooter Libby or the continuing investigation into Karl Rove. Rather, it’s the growing public perception that, unlike President Clinton in the 1990s, Bush is presiding over an unsuccessful, even incompetent, administration.
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Back in 2000, George W. Bush’s presidential campaign drew an explicit contrast between its candidate’s high ethical standards and Bill Clinton’s scandalous personal behavior. Five years later, there is tremendous irony in the fact that President Bush, if his second term agenda is to survive this scandal, needs to give America a reason to rate his own presidency along Clintonesque lines.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,174627,00.html
Up is down, left is right, gbaji is still wrong but the order of the universe is pretty much topsy turvsey right now.
Edited, Wed Nov 9 02:15:40 2005 by bodhisattva