European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 columns the stars and stripes Anthony Lewis Bush vow of Harmony tolerance leaves doubt n. If i i " it a Coeur d Alene Idaho listen ing to George Bush s acceptance speech i heard echoes of two clashing themes in american life two strains that have Benin conflict through almost All this coun try s history. One theme is openness generosity inclusiveness. It is the spirit that Welcome people of diverse cultures and beliefs the tired the poor the revolutionary and built them into one nation indivisible. It is the spirit of Freedom protecting the right of americans to differ with their neighbors. The other is intolerance suspicious Ness paranoia. It has been there from the burning of witches in Salem through the know nothings of the last Century Sheku flux klan the hatred of catholics and jews to the Waves of red scare that have stained America in this Cen Tury. Through much of his address Vic president Bush was deliberately and very effectively inclusive. He spoke As a Leader who could put partisan differences aside and bring us together. He borrowed the names and the rhetoric of presidents who Are democratic heroes. I hate War Bush said. Those of us who Are old enough could hear the voice of Franklin d. Roosevelt speaking those same words with such memorable emphasis just before the United states was engulfed in world War ii. Then Bush did the once unthinkable and actually mentioned Franklin Roosevelt s name at a Republican convention. He brought up to Date for s1940 slogan that the country should t change horses in Midstream. He invoked the name of John f. Kennedy. And housed the old democratic cry about social Security Don t let them take it  All that is fair enough in politics. In deed it is More than fair. The president of the United states has to speak for All of us. It is Wise for a candidate to Artic ulate what we have in common. George Bush was presidential when he spoke that Way just As Michael Dukakis was at the democratic convention. He made us think of this As one country where political opponents respect each other s patriotism. But that was not All of the speech. My opponent Bush said Jim Fain sees America As another pleasant country on the . Roll Call somewhere Between Albania and  it was a crude Appeal to the xenophobic Strain in Amer ican history the fear of and contempt for foreigners. Then came the red meat for the Radical right. Bush had a laundry list of proposals treasured by the religious fundamentalists and movement conserva Tives who now dominate the Republican party. It was a so called social Agenda capital punishment school prayer guns making abortion a crime again. A few minutes before Bush had said i believe that Power must always be kept close to the  but now hews saying that the state should deny individual women Freedom of Choice in their most fundamental personal Deci Sion. He was demanding that schools engage in the religious exercise of prayer even though that would isolate some individual children and hold them up tothe contempt of the majority. And there again was the attack on Dukakis because he vetoed a Bill to make All schoolchildren recite the pledge of Alle Giance a Bill that would have violated supreme court decision. It was a Clas sic example of the worst Strain in Ameri can politics the attack on an opponent s patriotism As if patriotism could been gendered by forcing some people to voice words in violation of their religious Faith. The convention audience loved it of course. That is Why Bush said those things and said them in the emotional Way he did. He has to prove himself on of them. He has to show that a sophisticated easterner a former ambassador to the United nations is really suspicious of foreigners. He has to sound intolerant of people with different social and religious values. He has to sound like Pat Robertson. Bush accomplished a lot in that speech. He fairly emphasized Prosperity and peace. If he Sticks to those issues he will be a formidable opponent to Michael Dukakis. But he missed the ultimate Opportunity to be a statesman. He still left us i doubt about who the real Bush is and whether he knows himself. I Hope to stand for a new Harmony he said a greater tolerance. I want a Kinder gentler  if Only he had kept to that spirit him self. New York times news service Quay a Bombshell detracted from Bush speech j_�_/__1 1 i to my 41, a 1 a. Aal a am a 4 a gift 11 a cell la q new Orleans George Bush hoped to Rescue his convention from terminal boredom by holding the vice presidential announcement until he reached new Orleans. He got his wish. For it he left town a political paraplegic despite giving the speech of his  people were Only half listening distracted by the Dan Quayle  s timing had converted a mess into a disaster by letting it explode in a convention Echo Cham Ber with 13,000 members of the press on hand to record the  aspects of the vice presidential circus had blotted out the Republican message for three straight  Bush chose the Little known Quayle because he was tired of being overshadowed and it s hard to think of another reason he overachiever. War wimp questions aside Quayle is a Senate lightweight. He s telegenic and an energetic campaigner. Otherwise his Only Charm is that he makes Bush look like a  to the Marx Brothers nature of the fiasco was the fact that Bush had six months after Locking up the nomination with nothing to do except walk the dog and make this uncomplicated decision. The result buttressed his reputation for bungling. Is this the his own Man we be been waiting to meet the Quayle draft dodging questions Are no about to go away partly because the Indiana puts himself Forward As a defense expert. During Viet Nam he was an outspoken Hawk. He still is. It s not having hunkered Down in the National guard that will haunt him. Lots of people did  s the hypocrisy. A Sermon on patriotism from him is like one on the sins of the flesh from Jimmy Swaggert. In 1969, after graduate study deferments were abolished the guard was the Only Legal Way to be sure of avoiding combat. Its few open slots were much coveted. Members of the Quayle clan s pub Lishing Empire used their political clout to squeeze Danny into this Sanctuary. That s the Crux. Had Bush trotted Quayle out earlier and Given his staff time to prep the Young senator the dam age might have been controlled. As it was Quayle flubbed his lines and raised the merely dreadful to catastrophe. De Rollins who managed the Reagan re election Campaign in 1984, said the wait would have been of had the Choice been a tested figure such As Bob Dole or Jack , in going to an unknown Bush took a huge risk. It was his first test at the controls of the re publican party. He flunked  acceptance speech on the other hand was his Best Ever. It was written by Peggy Noonan pick of the Reagan stable. She did Reagan s Salute to the challenger Crew the most poetic of his  adviser Roger Ailes has slowed Bush s de livery amputated his nervous mannerisms an fitted him out As a competent if less than passionate orator. When Bush talked of Community and his Early life in West Texas he was genuine and  was mainly the right Wing social Agenda with nothing much added and no specifics. Given the no tax pledge that May be inevitable but puts no meat on the Bones of his pledge to further education and clean up the  Quayle affair cast a deep Shadow and its effect could be  one votes for a vice president but How a candidate handles that matter affects How voters see  either Mcgovern or Mondale. Cox news service