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...hour-and-a-half "town meeting" was designed to showcase the breadth of Bradley's expertise in foreign affairs in the wake of questions about the competency of the leading Republican presidential contender, Texas Gov. George W. Bush and also to distinguish himself from the policies favored by Al Gore '69, his leading Democratic rival...
...very knowledgeable," said Jonathan D. Brown, a junior at Tufts. "But he had to be, with that Bush thing. He had to come out with spades on this issue...
...That Bush thing" is a reference to Bush's bungling a series of questions about world leaders by Boston television reporter Andy Hiller...
Like many other Democrats, Mark McKinnon for a long time had little use for George W. Bush. A media consultant based in Austin, Texas, McKinnon had toiled for Democratic candidates for years, and once he nearly took a job with Bill Clinton. In 1990 he helped Ann Richards become Texas Governor, and he regarded her successor with partisan suspicion. But McKinnon, 44, was won over after a dinner with Bush in 1997. He went to work producing the TV ads for the Governor's landslide re-election campaign in 1998, and is now running Bush's media campaign for President...
...Bush's TV ads, which have begun airing in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, showcase McKinnon's fondness for retro black-and-white footage and jittery, MTV-style editing. McKinnon took an unconventional path to his current job: as a teenager, he ran away to Nashville, Tenn., with dreams of becoming a country-music star; he wrote songs under Kris Kristofferson's tutelage and almost had one of his numbers recorded by Elvis Presley. "But Elvis passed away," says McKinnon ruefully. On making the switch from music to politics, he observes, "I turned to show business for ugly people...