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Article: We recommend ... president of the United States: John Kerry.(Bradenton Herald)
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- The Masthead
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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When the Herald recommended the election of George W. Bush as president of the United States four years ago, we lauded his record in Texas as a consensus builder and expressed confidence in his ability to unite the country after four years of bitter partisanship. We liked his slogan, "A uniter, not a divider," and criticized opponent A1 Gore's role as point man for Democrats' mean-spiritedness.
How poorly we understood George W. Bush in 2000. We could not imagine the possibility that, just four years later, Bush would have done just what we feared of Gore--that the United States would barely be on speaking terms with some of its staunchest allies, and that America ...