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If I were he, I think I'd respond by saying that excessive prosperity is now a problem for just a few--and that the next president should see to it that it afflicts as many of us as possible.
The Times of London said his job was to get rid of the "body-bag syndrome" that afflicts most NATO governments, "above all that of the militarily dominant US."
And he confirms his own religiosity, deploring the "hollow secularism" that supposedly afflicts the unenlightened.
In 1996 Bradley was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation--a heart rhythm problem that afflicts former President Bush and about 2 million other Americans.
An even more powerful reason flows from the groupthink that afflicts the White House press corps.