Word: bradley
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...multi-ethnic, complex and contradictory country, after months of relentless and scandalously expensive politicking, found itself reduced to a choice between two white male baby boomers, sons of powerful politicians, dauphins from Harvard and Yale. A rather narrow band of culture represented there, one would think. At least Bill Bradley knew how to play basketball; at least John McCain's character was formed by the experience of war, and by years on the inside of a North Vietnamese prison. The great American diversity had labored and labored - and brought forth an uninteresting pair of WASP bookends. Surely America has more...
...someone not on the ballot win the race? There's a meteor-landing-in-your-backyard chance. If Bush-Cheney or Gore-Lieberman won the race but, say, were caught in some scandal, the electors could vote for someone not on the ballot. President John McCain? Vice President Bill Bradley? The media would love that infinitesimal possibility. The incredible thing about the Electoral College is that it's a possibility...
...Bush campaign plane Wednesday. Going into the three-week debate season, Bush's advisers had been hoping merely to survive. In their own minds, at least, they were facing the most celebrated debater of his generation, a professional who had decimated Ross Perot, humiliated Jack Kemp and skewered Bill Bradley. The Bush team worked that angle hard, raising expectations for the vice president and lowering them for the governor. In selling the spin, it helped that they also believed it. But after the first two debates with Al Gore, George W. Bush had not only held...
...this was partly a result of who Bush is - "It's not his manner" to rebut statistics with statistics, says Rove - and partly because his debate strategy was to avoid getting dragged into the policy weeds with Gore and instead stay sunny and above the fray. But Bill Bradley tried a version of that during the primaries, not refuting Gore when he hammered Bradley's health-care plan, and by the time Bradley realized his mistake, the voters had written him off. Which may be why Bush's team worked hard in the days after the debate to beat down...
...cannot rescind the primaries and the political conventions. We cannot rewind the tape and start over again, rewriting the scenario, removing Bush and Gore and replacing them with ... whom? John McCain and Bill Bradley? That, in my view, would be a vast improvement in both parties. McCain and Bradley are both grownups, not the unseasoned, uncentered ones we have leading the tickets...