Word: argumentative
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...meddling that drives conservatives and libertarians crazy. It's a long way from the Bush approach of just giving people straight cash and trusting them to do with it as they please. (He offers a few tax credits, but they aren't central to his plan.) As such, the argument between the candidates over tax cuts reflects a fundamental difference in how Republicans and Democrats view the world. "Gore is focused on achieving social objectives, as opposed to tax relief," says Reischauer. "The goal of Bush's plan is tax relief, pure and simple...
...though, with piece on Clinton unloading (money) back: "amid criticism from Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush that the military is short on soldiers and equipment, [Clinton] is set to give the Defense Department an unexpected boost to its budget for fiscal 2002." Bill Tries to Help, Gives Bush Argument Credibility...
...choice that spoke of tolerance more than tactics. And so for a while Bush's people didn't know quite how to react. They were reduced to releasing statements saying Bush and Cheney "respect" Lieberman and to pointing out the issues on which he has differed with Gore. That argument didn't play so well, however, because Bush was making it while traveling through California alongside his old rival, John McCain--who is closer to Lieberman than to Bush on issues like campaign-finance reform...
Gore's toughest attack is aimed at Bush's economic plan. When Gore unleashes the argument, his words uncoil like a viper. "I think that his politics are 20 years old at the core. We've been there, done that, didn't work, still payin' the bill," he says. "It is ridiculous, if we've got a $1.4 trillion surplus over the next 10 years, that his tax cut alone is $1.6 trillion, and then his Social Security privatization is another trillion, and then his defense and other spending increases are another $450 billion, and that doesn't even count...
Karenna makes the best argument for Gore's intellectualism. "My dad is very forcefully logical about things. In some ways, that's why we get along quite well, because I like that," she says, sitting in the back of a Manhattan Italian restaurant in a cardigan and clogs. "Whenever you set up a heart-vs.-head thing, people always tend to say the heart is better. I think it's not as simple as that. Assumptions or prejudices are often emotional; if you look at things logically, you can often realize what things are and work through them...