quote: I found the article from the Economist (although obviously fictitious and satirical) to be clearly written by a liberal hand, the clear mark of which is the writer's inability to resist a few cheap digs at Bush. And although interesting, his high praise of Gore (while fliply trashing Bush) clearly likewise reflects his biases.
The Economist is not "liberal" but far more even-handed: its pro-war and unavowedly free trade (it had a crushing indictment of Dick Gephardt a few months ago). The "high praise of Gore" and the trashing of Bush are meant to make a point: you can almost substitute one name for the other, Bush for Gore, Holbrooke for Powell, Chaney for Lieberman - whoever had won the election, the reaction and commentary from the public would have been identical (again, in so far as we're dealing with Afghanistan, of course, not Iraq).
