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As recently as four years ago, pundits were explaining George Bush's defeat after winning the Gulf (and arguably the Cold) War--delivering not just "peace" but victory--by likening it to Churchill's defeat by British voters after World War II: Peace gave people the security to try someone new.
Gun control advocates hailed the verdict as the first in a wave of lawsuits against gun manufacturers, likening their movement to the one against tobacco companies.
Palestinian advocates have exploited the Kosovo war by likening Serbian viciousness against Kosovars to Israeli cruelty toward Palestinians.
While local newspaper coverage has generally been self-pitying, the comfortably faraway New York Times responded with Schadenfreude , likening the Northwest's woes to biblical plagues ("We finally got our natural disaster, as if it were coming to us," conceded a Seattle coffee server) and reporting that "some Northwesterners" confess to a "sheltered, even slightly wimpy quality in their approach to the extremes of nature."
He mocks the notion that Kennedy was a good president, likening him to James Garfield.