America's sucker-in-chief

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 14 04:55:27 PST 2000


[Tom Frank in today's Financial Times]

There is something about the man [George W. Bush] that makes him a perfect specimen of the age. While Al Gore was a technocrat, everyone knows that the real credit for the great bull market goes to simple, uncomplicated believers like Mr Bush, the ones who faithfully swallowed the TV commercials, who bought at the top, who gaped at the internet just as they were told to do. This is an age of faith in the US - the more guileless the better - and in George W. Bush, America has found itself a sucker-in-chief.

[Full text, http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3TQG8FPGC&live=true]

Carl

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