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Packaging a president-elect is not as easy aspackaging a candidate--especially when the"outsider" crosses inside the Beltway to take uppermanent residence...
...kind of cultural elite part two. In the coming weeks we'll discover who we really elected last week--the dozens of hangers-on and big-wig fund raisers working behind the scenes for months who will be rewarded with a comfy spot somewhere in the Beltway in the new cabinet. While it's only natural that we'd like to know their names, we're also aware that this endless, boundless curiousity is a national sickness. For months we've welcomed the poorly written reams of over-analyzed crap about the election. Just think of all the breath wasted...
Clinton faces an uphill battle starting today. The transition to a fully Democratic Beltway will take months. The economic recovery needs to be handled carefully. The deficit looms as a problem to hit after the recovery stabilizes. Foreign policy will demand his attention in ways we can't yet envision...
...QUAYLE and AL GORE prepared for their debates, each vying for the label of most humble candidate. After Quayle pointed out that Gore went to fancy schools, Gore one-upped him: "While he is preparing for the debates in the center of the Federal Government, inside the Beltway, I'm going to do my preps in a barn." Gore's aides tend to run around in polo shirts and jeans. On Air Force Two, Quayle's aides are often seen in stocking feet...
...candidates lie -- in a technical sense -- every time they read a speech they paid someone else to write, every time they gush over how thrilled they are to be among the real people outside the Beltway, and every time they feign modesty after a particularly effusive introduction. But the voters have become inured to such petty fabrications. The big fibs are the problem -- the read- my-lips whoppers. So here, as a public service, are some rhetorical tricks ; that signal DANGER -- SHARP CURVES AHEAD...