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Yahoo! News - WHERE DID ALL THESE DEMOCRATS COME FROM?

What is happening now politically is that many Democrats think he will fail, that most voters can be persuaded that Republicans don't care about them, and that the administration's aggressive military policy will win more enemies than friends.

RIGHT OR WRONG, BUSH IS A TRUE BIG-PICTURE GUY

He is, right or wrong -- and he certainly is convinced he's right -- a true big-picture guy. He may be riding for a fall, but he is trying to change the world and the country. Bush, right now, is moving to remake the world in an American image -- institutionalizing an American empire -- and remake the country in a conservative image with government power reduced by cutting its funding. And if people don't like it, they can go to court and appeal to the judges he picked.

AMERICAN PRE-EMPTION AND A SCARED WORLD

In just two years, the Bush administration has managed to undo the decades of work all over the world to try to prevent the proliferation of "the bomb." In talking of pre-emptive strikes against "evil" regimes -- evil, of course, being in the red-white-and-blue eye of the beholder -- the United States is forcing other countries and their leaders, sane and insane, to re-evaluate long-ago decisions to trust a few rich nations that already had nuclear technology.

A NEW YEAR OF MORAL ISSUES

The year 2003 could very well be one of the most important in American history -- and because of American superpower, it could be almost as significant in world history. An unashamed bleeding-heart liberal perspective of the United States and its opportunities and problems at the end of 2002 would focus on three issues -- moral issues. They are war and peace, health and sickness, and common decency.

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