[RLK]

Since the day he began running for the office I have never heard anything forceful or incisive from him... Then you are not listening.

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I listen all right. I just don't fantasize and project ideas into the platitudes I'm hearing. There is a difference between listening and fantasy.

[Mortimer Snavely]

The President reminds me time and again of Chauncey the Gardener from the old Peter Sellers movie Being There. People project onto Bush things that they are desperate to hear after the blood curdling Clinton years.

I have yet to hear anything from him that couldn't be concocted by any Madison Avenue outfit, managing to reach the lowest common denominator of a particular target market. That market doesn't include the vast majority of Americans who are too disgusted to vote for anyone. Bush lost the popular vote, folks. A Reagan landslide his election most definitely was not, regrdless of howsoever much we wish or need that it were.