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"Robin*" <springs809@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Curious" <nospam@newsranger.com> wrote in message
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> > How Dubya Got To Be President by Paul Street From the Feburary, 2001 of
Z
> > Magazine.
> >
> > On January 20, George W. Bush began his reign as perhaps one of the
> meanest and
> > certainly one of the dumbest presidents in the history of the United
> States. He
> > becomes the chief executive of the world's most powerful nation despite
a
> > mediocre record in a series of academic institutions to which he gained
> > admission through inherited class privilege and family name; despite a
> business
> > record that would have brought him economic ruin but for family/class
> > connections and related corporate welfare infusions; despite an
> unimpressive and
> > mean-spirited record in one of the nation's weakest governorships.  He
> occupies
> > the oval office despite his transparent discomfort with fundamentals of
> policy
> > and the English language, a chronically sneering visage, a belatedly
> publicized
> > DUI conviction, and a political record contrary to principles and
> objectives
> > supported by a majority of Americans. Those principles and objectives
> include
> > campaign finance reform, environmental protection, tax equity, quality
> public
> > schools, racial justice, and the maintenance of Social Security as a
> viable
> > public program.
> >
> > How did Dubya pull it off? Well, he didn't. Bush owes his presence in
the
> Oval
> > Office to a fortuitous (for him) combination of factors. The first and
> most
> > obvious factor was big money. In the United States, where the escalating
> cost of
> > paid political advertising prices out candidates who can't raise
fortunes
> and
> > prevailing legal doctrine (Buckley v. Valeo, 1976) holds that campaign
> spending
> > limits violate free speech rights, it is only fitting that the
candidates
> with
> > the most cash should win. This happened in 9 out 10 races for federal
> office in
> > 2000 and the White House was no exception. Bush's record-setting
campaign
> > contributions ($191,617,196) and expenditures ($182,052,265) gave him a
> > significant money edge over Gore (who raised $132,624,544).
>
> Then how do we explain H. Ross Perot, with his BILLIONS of dollars, and
> Steve Forbes, with his family's fortune behind him, going down in
FLAMES????

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