[544] in Depressing_Thoughts
Re: Bush as President
mugambo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mugambo@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 9 09:55:14 1988
Okay, I thought _real hard_ to come up with a silver lining on this one.
Consider:
- It will be a peaceful transfer of power. So, the wrong guy won, but lets
put it in perspective: no violence at the polls, no bribery of election
officials, no forced voting, no threatened coup if the military's candidate
didn't win. Look around the world and see how often that sort of thing
happens.
- He ain't Ronald Reagan. This one puts a big smile on my face.
- He's got no mandate. He didn't run on any sort of issues other than "No
furloughs" and "gentler, kinder America." So he can't claim any national
endorsement of policies that he's gonna make up between now and January.
- We got a couple in the House and a couple in the Senate. See the point
above. Without Reagan's claim of mandate and without Reagan's charisma,
Bush is going to HAVE to REALLY work with Congress to get anywhere. And
we have the Congress.
- He ain't Ronald Reagan. It bears repeating.
Well, it made me feel better. Sort of.
-ts
