This is a war that has been fought by troops out of hometowns, from the ranks of the National Guard and Reserves.
For the first time in history, we declared war without financing it. Americans have not been asked to pay for it through taxes.
Diverted the resources it required to the other war, in Vietnam.
I think you would have to say that Gov. Bush has had a rougher passage to the nomination. McCain stung him badly in New Hampshire and then came back from the South Carolina to win again in Michigan ... the kind of state that represents a battleground in a general election. Losing to McCain there really did inflict some wounds on Bush.
He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.
Bradley never quite caught up with Gore in the early rounds and I think Gore had an easier passage.
I think none of us can really understand Bob's silence for two years about his own role in the case.
Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
He allowed his spokesman to spend the first 24 hours of the Waco tragedy distancing the president from the calamity, before he stepped forward himself to back the attorney general and accept his own accountability.
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