RC>I think some of it surfaced yesterday in the Columbus town
RC>hall meeting yesterday. It was not just the surfacing of a
RC>small group of antiwar protesters - the questions asked by
RC>the participants were hardball questions demonstrating
RC>little or no confidence in the MisAdministration. 
 
       The depiction of a combat veteran who, in his own words, "stood
in the gap for the United States", a former United States Marine, as
part of a "loud and disprutive minority", only demonstrates the
arrogance of this administration.  They had spent this entire effort to
drum up support for air raids on Iraq huddled in the confines of the
White House and were totally caught off guard by the reception they
received.
       Questions like "What's the objective?", "Will we have to do this
again every three months?", "How many civilian casualties do you
consider acceptable?", and "What moral right do we have to attach the
nation of Iraq?" caught CLinton's people completely offguard.  Their
answers, and the feeble attempts of the administration since to provide
answers, have fallen short.
       BUT...Clinton is slick.  The administration has already begun to
react and is making wholesale polciy changes.  You'll notice, now that
lack of support for an air raid has been demonstrated and support for
such a raid has waned in the polls, we are suddenly seeing far less
sabre rattling on the part of the administration, reduced coverage on
deployments that were a daily event before the Ohio State fiasco, and
now, all of a sudden, the Secretary General's visit to Iraq seems to
offer "great promise of a peaceful resolution of the crisis" when three
days ago it was "a last ditch effort with little prospect for
progress".
      If anyone hasn't noticed yet, the aor raids have been called off.
Clinton hasn't announced it yet, the agreement hasn't been made yet,
but you can bet your booties, at this point, it's all over but the
spectacular breakthrough and the surprising turn of events.
RC>Given that this was a hand-picked audience, the results
RC>were truly astonishing, putting the lie to all recent
RC>polls. Madelyn Albright was in shock and ol' Bernie Shaw,
RC>the CNN moderator, was nearly in tears from outrage.
 
      Welcome to the hinterland.  When politicians wander outside the
beltway and emerge into the real world they take BIG risks.  You know,
I think they really convince themselves that the country is like the
capitol grounds and that everyone in America is as fooled by this
administration as the interns on their knees in the Oval Office.
      Wrong.
RC>The Dufus' support may indeed be a mile wide... and only
RC>skin deep. 
 
      I think that mile wide is going to shrink a little in the next
polls.  Momentum and thinking people are thinking what other people are
thinking are BIG motivating factors among the electorate.  Looking at
79% approval ratings most people will not dare to be different and no
matter what they really think, want to pile on and be like everyone
else.
      Guess what?  After seeing people really objecting to these clowns
and challanging them face to face, and then being ignored and treated
with arrogance, people are going to say, "hey, I'm not the only one out
there who thinks these people are idiots".  Watch the next "approval"
poll...can you spell P L U M M E T. 
 
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