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Bush's team is just not the same. Perhaps it is because we still do not know them yet. They will remain alien to us even if they still bear the aura of substitute teachers rather than, say, assistants to the most powerful guy ever. Though they lack the instant celebrity of Clinton's 1992 team, Bush's team will, in truth, probably grow more recognizable. And soon we will be accustomed to them too, even if we still miss the Clinton circus...
...Well, power is a great cosmetic and source of endorphins. It gives a man an aura. A woman as well - behold the change in Hillary Clinton, her new radiance. From being a wronged woman and failed bureaucrat (health care), she has been reborn as a senator with all the world before...
...exuberant, eagerly gaze toward the upcoming term, the river responds in kind, painting its boughs bright crimson hues, gurgling while it playfully licks the boats that caress its surface. In March, when lazy students, recently finished with midterms and theses, shed their cares, the river reflects that restful aura, sparkling quietly beneath clear blue skies. In May, the busiest of times, when students must hustle and bustle, move and commence, the river, too, shimmers with activity, shooting rays of light that blind those moving along the water's side...
Bush couldn't risk being seen as a man presumptuously grasping at the Oval Office, so he relied on Cheney's aura of authority and competence to persuade Americans that the race was finally over and Gore should give up. "A lot of you wrote stories back in July that Cheney was a dumb pick," says Ron Kaufman, a G.O.P. consultant who worked in Bush's father's White House. "He sure doesn't look like a dumb pick now, does...
...John Kennedy in 1960 by a margin of problematic votes, worked for eight years in the Republican wilderness, speaking to every Rotary and Kiwanis that would have him. But Nixon had more ground to make up. He was defeated in the California race for Governor in 1962; an aura of redoubled loser clung to him like 5 o'clock shadow. It was early 1968 before he looked like a winner again...