Wednesday, November 03, 2004
The real issues at stake in the Presidential race
By the time you read this, we may well know the outcome of the US presidential race. (But then again, with thousands of lawyers poised, we may not). Regardless of who wins, though, Melanie Phillips has a penetrating analysis of the basic issues at stake. These won’t change, no matter whether Bush or Kerry wins.
Phillips says the choice being made today by American voters is not just between two rival candidates but between two diametrically opposed views of the world. It is a choice on which the very future of the west and its values may hang. “That is why passions are running so extraordinarily high, not just in America but in Britain and other countries where the nail-biting last throes of the US electoral drama have thrust almost everything else into the shadows.”
By the time you read this, we may well know the outcome of the US presidential race. (But then again, with thousands of lawyers poised, we may not). Regardless of who wins, though, Melanie Phillips has a penetrating analysis of the basic issues at stake. These won’t change, no matter whether Bush or Kerry wins.
Phillips says the choice being made today by American voters is not just between two rival candidates but between two diametrically opposed views of the world. It is a choice on which the very future of the west and its values may hang. “That is why passions are running so extraordinarily high, not just in America but in Britain and other countries where the nail-biting last throes of the US electoral drama have thrust almost everything else into the shadows.”
