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...after the Democratic Convention, with Al Gore's bounce beginning to register in the polls, the mood in Austin, Texas, was one of unflappable calm. George W. Bush's advisers had predicted Gore's surge; now they were saying it wouldn't last. All Bush had to do, a senior aide said, was stay focused on his message and not let Gore goad him into a fight. "We need to keep from falling into the trap of looking at what they're doing and then responding...
...many people, after being broken in half in front of the whole country, would choose to run for office rather than seek psychotherapy or at least a calm visiting professorship somewhere? If she doesn't ask the people in the hall to believe her but asks them to believe she can accomplish what they believe in, she may yet pull it out. She's such a survivor, CBS should have cast her on the show...
...this time, I could have been the centerfold for Psychology Today. Rae was still calm. I told her, "If she's not out here in five minutes, I want you to walk right in and introduce yourself." Rae swallowed. Suddenly, at the van window...and now, opening the van door...the woman in yellow with the baby. And just as suddenly, inside...sitting next to her daughter. Our daughter--all of ours. She was nervous. She wouldn't look at us, only at her baby and the interpreter. "We'll go somewhere," said the interpreter...
Lieberman's off-duty persona is much like his on-duty one, the same mixture of great calm and boundless energy, whether in black tie at the Kennedy Center, cheering at a Washington Mystics game or in his flannel shirt in line at the Safeway. Close readers of this column will remember when I was required by pesky editors to order dinner for 50 entirely off the Internet, including a person to help serve. When that person, like so much else, didn't show up, the Senator got his own drink, and Hadassah rolled up her silk sleeves...
...Probably the best thing Gore could do this week is to calm down. He sometimes campaigns like an alien on Dexedrine, all pumped and almost loony with focus, his face a fast-forward of mad spontaneities and grimacing sincerities. That sort of performance adds to the disturbing impression. The doubting white male says to himself: "If he acts like this while he's working a ropeline, how would he behave in a real crisis...