“Internationally, Taking Sides in the U.S. Presidential Race: In Europe, seeing ‘a world election in which the world has no vote,’" by Patrick E. Tyler, New York Times, 4 September, p. A10.
“Bush’s Second Term: Aiming for a transformation,” by David Brooks, NYT, 4 September, p. A27.
“Kerry Urges Voters to Look Past Bush’s ‘Last-Minute Promises,’” by David M. Halbfinger, NYT, 4 September, p. A1.
Already the Europeans are fretting over four more years of Bush, but they see it coming, primarily because “he comes over as a strong leader and John F. Kerry doesn’t.”
I think David Brooks has it right: Bush’s second term will be more transformational than the first. Already, he’s rewritten what it means to be Republican, which used to mean small government but now means a very activist government and a very activist foreign policy.
Meanwhile, Kerry’s latest pitch is to beg voters not to listen to Bush’s promises. That sort of tack worries me a lot. Doesn’t sound like a winner’s approach, now does it?
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