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...notion that Israel has pursued a "policy of restraint" would be greeted with bitter cynicism by a Palestinian population that has lost almost 200 people in the past seven weeks as the Israelis have deployed everything from rubber-coated bullets to tank artillery and air-to-surface missiles against Palestinian militants. But the fact remains that the Israeli military is capable of a far higher degree of violence than it has unleashed thus far, and Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government is under increasing domestic pressure to up the ante. Israel has once again cordoned off Palestinian towns throughout...
...college makes the other (presumably Gore) president. Would it mean a constitutional crisis? Full-scale lobbying of electors to change their votes? Maybe and maybe - but it would definitely mean some measure of suspense and controversy until the electors actually vote. Better yet, it would mean four years of bitter recriminations of a president, whoever it ends up being, viewed by a substantial chunk of the electorate as illegitimate...
Bush spokesperson Ken Lisaius derided what he called the "bitter, divisive tone" of Gore's campaign...
...switch allegiances, as I so successfully did with newsweeklies the day I got this job, is simply because the Yankees win. You can either join the phony, rich, successful people, or you can sit at a second-rate stadium listening to You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet and being bitter. This is America, where rich people's sons get to run for President or put together expensive baseball teams, and sometimes, if they're lucky, both. And even if it's just from the bleachers, I want to feel like a part of that...
...know, as president, Bill Clinton did a lot of good things for this country, and he tried to do a lot more. And I think one of the reasons Washington seems such a bitter place lately is that personal issues, and personal animosities, got introduced into the debate...