What it’s all about

I was reading “Oh waiter! One order of crow!” yesterday, a book by Jeff Greenfield about the 2000 election, and he said something that struck me, it sounded so much like this year’s election.

“Whether consciously or not, they [the Bush campaign] were resting their hopes for Bush on a conviction that the first impression he offered-a steady, reliable, centered but not self-centered man- would carry them through and that voters would decide based on who they wanted the next president to be. Just as surely, the Gore partisans believed that if voter went to the polls thinking about what they wanted the next president to do, they would decide this pleasant young man from Texas was simply not up to the tasks they wanted accomplished”

This sounds a lot like this year’s election. if the people vote based on who they want to be president, they will choose Barack Obama, if they vote on what they want the president to do, then they will choose John McCain. Unfortunately, the voters decided based on who they wanted the president to be in the 2000 election. Most likely, that will not change. The only way for John McCain to win is if the voters decide they want a president who has experience instead of one who is merely pleasant.

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Harry Nelson is the founder of Campaign for America, and the leader of the the American Government Experience. Harry has maintained an active involvement in politics since he was a youth, and firmly believes in the capabilities of youths to understand and participate in our political process.

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