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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Hooray, hooray! According to E.J. Dionne, "the president has an opportunity on Thursday for a kind of redemption."
One wonders, though. If E.J. is so hot to see Bush "redeemed," one would think he would have used his WaPo column to help the President win re-election as a uniter, not a divider. Instead, he used that platform to push Kerry and denounce Bush as a tyrannical dunce.
It may, in fact, be Dionne who needs redemption. Bush has his flaws and foes, but it's Dionne's candidate and Dionne's prescriptions for our country that came up short in November. While Dionne's speech might go a little ways with those who can't forgive Bush for winning, it probably wouldn't play with those who stuck by him in his reelection fight.
But it's gratifying to see E.J. trying to bring America together. If anyone has it handy, please forward the similarly themed column E.J. penned in '96 about Clinton needing to reach out to Republicans with his second term secured.
posted by gbarto at 10:27 PM
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