Expect a new, cannier Bush
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1391517,00.html
But don't be fooled by the softer, more accommodating second-term
President. There's still steel in the soul
Will Hutton
Sunday January 16, 2005
The Observer
George Bush's extravagant inauguration this week - in his own mind
nearer to an annunciation - is not what most British and Europeans
wanted. This is a second-term President with the lowest approval
ratings ever at home; they are even lower abroad.
Yet despite everything, from the debacle in Iraq to the tax cuts
directed at the rich, it is Bush, not Kerry, presiding over no less
than 10 inauguration balls and talking reverentially of his mandate,
unsurprisingly, having increased his share of the vote compared to 2000
among almost every category of voter. This is one election he didn't
steal.
Will Hutton
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