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Show Pnplp. Politics & Policy in Pleasant Grn, Bush inaugural preview of preside By E. MARK BEZZANT Each person who comes to the highest office in the land brings S them a unique set of qualities needed for the time and President SSisnoexception Fridasinaj guration was a good indication of Sekind of things that President Bush will bringto the worldduring the next four and maybe, just maybe eight years. President Bush was criticized for what some term the most bitter and negative campaign m history Such was far from the truth. An over zealous media were myopic m their assessment of the 1988 campaign. cam-paign. One might want to read the literature surrounding the election of Lincoln, for starters. A good sample of the bitterness of those campaigns can also be found in the debates earlier between Lincoln and Douglas. Douglas and others accused Lincoln of tryingto destroy the nation and accused him of proposing pro-posing ideas that were clearly contrary con-trary to those of the founding fathers. fa-thers. President Bush's first act as president is indicative of the deep and abiding faith he has in God. It is also indicative that at the heart of this great country are God fearing fear-ing people, many of whom bowed theirs heads with the new president. presi-dent. Sunday's declared day of thanksgiving and prayer are also indicative of this new president and this great country. President Bush joins many other presidents who recognized that there was a high purpose for which this country has been preserved. pre-served. The godless are a clear minority in this land and such has been the case since the first pilgrims pil-grims landed here in 1620. Lincoln often acknowledged the power of God in moving and directing him. lhe new breeze that i u across the world finds J ' roots in the policies 0f p"1 Nixon. He laid the found global trade in a signify1 This trade has made us d on one another. Hence inclined to pick up the sv,!!? more inclined to sit at the t ' ' Communications have those behind the iron andb I curtains to see more cleati I failings of a system built f and distrust. Their peoples have J. aware that compared toftet terns theirs is a miserable fr' f Monday, in his first dot initiative, President Bush an effort to end the scurgeofi! tion. He will meet with oppi)r1 Steam equal or better than that 'i 0f the Lincoln faced on the slavery However, like the issue of thehigher moral purposewillj; r tually be victorious. Thein jC practice of terminating a dec ing human on the groundsel, sonal choice in many waysej Co: the brutality of slavery. Wher. Congt coin contemplated the devast? town of the civil war to both the X? ning i and South he concluded thatt tovot allowed the whole of the natfc. increi suffer for having allowed slaver. exist at all. Af Barbara Bush brings to Aijf percc a much more realistic role t congi perhaps Nancy Reagan did,t: salar is marvelous is that she is use 1 with herself, her real self, no'.; dowr reconstructed self. The Bush!-. C ily will be a welcome sightforc; hono Americans who know that fan and are the stuff America is mads: spee America will look forwards A kinder and gentler America; the new president has promised,', wou many of the markers in our ct: K tery are grim reminders ot. prof awful cost of war, hatred, i now prejudice. To the President, ; play the first lady we can extendbat ers i them our willing hearts andk thei as well as our prayers as theyVond the land we love amid the stc- teai sea of tomorrow. hai |