The Republicans increasingly look like economic Neanderthals, while the president is sounding like the voice of reason.

The new president, the folk-hero Walesa, can sound suspiciously socialist in his calls for greater protection of the working man from harsh economic reality.

But even then, the president sounded as if he were an accidental tourist in Iraq.

The president sounded impassioned yesterday in railing against the double taxation of dividends.

But the president sounded more cooperative today.

He thought the president sounded frantic.

Keeps the Commies guessing when the president sounds so sincere.

Just last month, the president sounded more like a free-trade evangelist.

In a conversation with Bill Moyers July 7, the president sounds like a tyrant one moment, a confused child the next.

And not unlike that first battle, the president sounded angry and defensive, as if scolding the undecided.