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Bush Co. makes a lot of reassuring noises from its mouths, but generally doesn't actually say anything. It talks about "Victory in Iraq". Though I listen to NPR for about two hours every day while commuting, I have never heard the conditions for "Victory" defined.
But it sounds good. Most of the reassuring noises that have no meaning make for great sound bites. To people who actually listen critically to politicians (I'm not sure why anyone bothers, regardless of affiliation) get so caught up in the emptiness of the rhetoric that they fail to notice how smoothly it's delivered.
Bush is an excellent speech reader backed by even better speech writers. He sounds like he's saying simple straightforward things that are easy for people who aren't really listening to understand. Well reasoned and multi-faceted opinions do not survive television concision or the spin of being dubbed "waffling". Many people pick candidates based on a handful of largely irrelevant cultural issues... play to those issues and otherwise avoid muttering anything substantive and they'll keep voting for you.
This is why Bush won. No one wants to be invited to think about their position on stem cells. Kerry launched on how current stem cell research lines are contaminated with mouse cells. What voters did he win over with that one? I don't even remember what Bush said, probably because he didn't actually say anything... just made reassuring noises that sounded like a point being made.
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