Word: bradley
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Even so, the issue is by no means risk-free for Gore. It reinforces his image as a malleable pol, so it's worth examining why he claims to have changed his mind. In February, when Bill Bradley, his primary opponent, proposed tapping the reserve to aid homeowners, Gore said the move wouldn't help boost supply, because if oil-producing countries retaliated by cutting production, "they'd wipe out any impact from releasing oil from that reserve." Gore now argues that circumstances have changed. The OPEC nations, he said last week, "pledged to increase oil production, and they have...
...last twelve and a half years, Al Gore has debated 35 times as vice president and presidential contender. He's debated in groups, debated one-on-one, debated in town halls and on talk shows. He's debated dwarves like Gephardt and Dukakis, jocks like Jack Kemp and Bill Bradley, wild men like Ross Perot, pushovers like James Stockdale and supposed pushovers like Dan Quayle. He's gotten very good at it, primarily because he has a strategist's nose for weakness and the discipline to keep jabbing at it. And he will hit below the belt...
...Most recent victim: Bradley. Gore, rusty from four years of uninterrupted vice presidency , once again turned to strategy in his series of matchups with Bradley. He decided to hit the idealism-addicted Bradley where it would surely hurt: right in his lofty ideals. Gore found an opportunity in Bradley's cherished health-care plan, in a $150 voucher proposal that Gore charged would be cruelly insufficient - and also racially discriminatory. Bradley fumes and instead of hitting back, becomes caught in clumsily defending his plan. Bradley is beaten as a candidate...
...instance, Shai M. Sachs '01, a former member of Harvard Students for Bill Bradley, said he is now on Nader's mailing list. Sachs follows the lead of Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West '74, a former Bradley advisor who now vocally supports Nader...
...video clip of a Gore debate making its way through the e-mail system at Bush's Austin headquarters gives you a sense of how the team sizes up its opponent. "I have never said anything I knew to be untrue," says Gore as he defends himself against Bill Bradley's claim that he has distorted his health care plan. "I have never said anything that is untrue." The boast is a vexing reminder that the Bush campaign, like Bradley's, has been unable to make Gore's credibility an issue. But it is also a claim they hope...