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What I Forgot To Post For Ty Earlier . . .
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Originally posted by bilmore
Then I'm totally confused. Bush has been pushing this privatization thing forever, and certainly making no secret about it - heck, it was a debate point. It would make no sense to speak that way about it now, unless they were countering some perception that he was going to pursue a wider plan than he's spoken of, or pursue it faster than he let on, and I've seen no indication either that he is, or that such a thing would fly at all. So, I'm not getting what you're saying.
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Bush has been trying to have it both ways, like a good politician should. He has signalled, opaquely, to his supporters that he intends to pursue privatization in his second term. According to Suskind's sources, he's not opaque about it at all in front of the right crowd. But swing voters and Democrats do not want to hear this, so he's sending the general public a different message -- it's not an issue. What Suskind did was share Bush's words for his supporters with the rest of us.
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