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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
April 18, 2008
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Casualties of the Campaign
By Victor Davis Hanson
It is only four months into 2008, but the presidential
campaign -- already too long and nasty -- is still a
long way from over. And the casualties are mounting.
First, George Bush’s popularity remains dismal -- even
though some of the complaints about his first term have
gone by the wayside. The French and German governments
are now staunchly pro-American. Violence in Iraq is still
way down from a year ago. America has been free from a
terrorist attack since 9/11.
No matter. Nothing has seemed to help the president. His
approval rating stays at, or sinks below, 30 percent.
Why? The current gloomy economic news and the continuing
human and financial costs of Afghanistan and Iraq explain
a lot. But another reason is this present election cycle.
For the first time in nearly six decades, no incumbent
president or vice president is daily hammering back in
defense of the recent four years.
We expect Democratic opponents Barack Obama and Hillary
Clinton to trash an incumbent Republican president. But
Republican nominee John McCain seldom endorses anything
about the two Bush terms.
Again, the last time America witnessed anything similar
was when Harry Truman left office with a 22 percent
approval rating -- under furious attack by Republican
candidate Dwight Eisenhower and yet shunned by his own
party's nominee, the maverick Adlai Stevenson, who had
not been part of the Truman administration.
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If the current president hasn't been helped by the present
campaign, look what's it's done to his predecessor. The
Clinton legacy is wrecked. Left-wing bloggers, liberal
columnists and some Democratic politicians now despise Bill
and Hillary Clinton -- even more than did "the vast right-
wing conspiracy" of the 1990s.
A furious Hillary keeps charging the media with the same
sort of bias that the Republicans used to routinely claim
always favored her husband. Apparently the left has become
infatuated with Barack Obama and does not want another
eight years of the once-iconic Clintons -- especially after
their use of the race card, the hardball politics and
Hillary's chronic exaggeration and misstatements.
Globetrotting Bill Clinton spent seven years crafting a
legacy as a post-partisan senior statesman. Now he's thrown
that away by devolving into a political henchman assigned
to take down the Democratic Party's first serious African-
American candidate.
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Whatever the final result of the 2008 campaign, the image
of an above-the-fray Bill is no more -- shattered somewhere
between the disclosure of the $109 million Clinton tax
returns and his finger-shaking lectures to the press about
its supposed unfairness to his wife. Democrats once were
enchanted that their party might usher in the nation's
first woman president. Now many of them fear Hillary is a
bothersome obstacle in the way of an even more hip and
novel breakthrough candidate.
Racial relations also soured from the campaign. Obama
promised to be our post-racial healer. But so far, even
if it weren't his intent, he is proving the most racially
contentious candidate in recent American history.
African-Americans still line up behind Obama, even as
whites keep voting in large majorities for Clinton.
The more Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright,
keeps sounding unhinged, the more Obama can't quite free
himself from this hateful albatross.
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And when Obama talks down about middle America's fondness
for religion and guns; or suggests that small-town America
is "anti-immigrant" and "clings" to "antipathy to people
who aren't like them;" or quips about the "typical white
person," he only increases racial polarization -- cementing
the image of someone who sees America in terms of "they,"
not "us."
The Bush and Clinton legacies, Obama's "new" politics and
race relations are all casualties of a wide-open election
without incumbents. But the greatest casualty has been our
inability to figure how to deal with looming crises.
So far we haven't heard specific workable proposals from
the candidates about how exactly they would solve energy
dependence, soaring food prices, illegal immigration or
outdated farm subsidies.
There has been no new solution offered about the looming
Social Security crack-up. Few candidates have expressed
novel ideas of stopping staggering deficits or bulking
up a sinking dollar -- much less exactly the sacrifices
necessary on all our parts to restore American financial
solvency. No one has offered a better way of dealing with
an ascendant but lawless China, an unhinged Iran or the
ongoing war against Islamic extremism.
In 2008, everything and everyone has fallen victim to a
nasty campaign -- except America's nastiest problems.
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