George Bush's America
This is how the Brits see us. An ongoing Special Report on gw's Amerika from a foriegn perspective courtesy of the Manchester Guardian.
Presidency of dunces
One hundred days in office and what does George Bush have to show for it? It is a sorry record for America.
But the key expectation has proved spectacularly false. The savants told us there was little to choose between Gore, a Clintonite New Democrat, and Bush, a self-styled "compassionate conservative". Both were huddling in the soft centre: Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Whoever won, little would change.
Well, no one's saying that now. For the promise that this would be a Republican Lite administration has proved naive, if not positively deceitful. Instead, in 100 short days, we have seen the Bush regime establish itself as the most brazenly rightwing of modern times. As the ecstatic head of the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation enthuses, the new crowd are "more Reaganite than the Reagan administration".
This is one of the articles from the Guardian.
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