Not all English newspapers have adopted the Guardian's appraisal that Bush might be "shrewd".
This is from a column in the Independent.
Open season for Republican ambition
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
07 November 2002
Even before the Republican Party hit the jackpot in Tuesday's mid-term elections, George Bush's administration was seen as the most unilateralist, belligerent, unabashedly business-friendly and anti-environmentalist American presidency in recent memory.
Now the Pentagon hawks, the corporate tax-cutters, the gun lobbyists, anti-abortionists and hanging judges are running the show, with only the threat of the occasional congressional filibuster standing in the way of what is likely to be a radical right-wing agenda.
Wow! I wonder if he'll take it back if things go well.
I used the Economist and Guardian to underline my points, so here is the Independent perhaps to underline some of yours. He put a lot in two paragraphs.
In any case, American Presidents tend to move toward the center while in office. They also develop more gray or white hair, but than other thing.
Harry
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