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...could outprepare Al Gore. He walked up to the edge of the audience, Clinton-style, if without Clinton's emotionally hungry ease. He called attention to his departures from his Round 2 pussycat posture. And he came prepared with opening eulogies not just for late Missouri governor Mel Carnahan but the sailors killed on the USS Cole, which took over half his first response. By the time he cited Carnahan's record in a later question on affirmative action, we were witness to a classic instance of Gore-esque coffin-riding, ? la his 1992 and 1996 convention speeches. (Whereas...
...Gore; his footwork, carriage and impressively human gesticulations left Bush looking a little wan and hunched, and he scored a layup by explaining Bush's education policy for him. But the vice president never stole the show. Bush, after a nervous beginning in which he managed to botch his Carnahan-condolence line (though at least it was brief - Gore's sounded like an Oscar speech), settled down. He boiled down the tax cut/estate tax question resoundingly ("It's a fairness issue. It's an issue of principle, not politics") and delivered suitably grave response to the death penalty question that...
...President Clinton and Gore have both called the governor's wife to express condolences. But Tuesday night Gore and Bush (who, of course, as a governor is a peer of Carnahan's) will have to make those condolences during their opening statements to a "town hall" audience in a state of mourning...
Friends of Mel Carnahan, the story today goes, say the governor would have wanted the debate to go on, and so it will. George W. Bush canceled a 9:30 a.m. appearance at nearby Webster University, but after discussions between the campaigns and the Commission on Presidential Debates, the word was that everything else would proceed as scheduled...
...make today a day to skip class; a woman paints in big red letters on the side of a bridge directions to the Ralph Nader rally (for you Nader supporters in St. Louis, the candidate will speak at a 5 p.m. rally today. You can find directions here. The Carnahan death is in the air; the cops talk about friends of theirs on the highway patrol who talked to some farmer who said the crash was the loudest thing he'd ever heard. On KMOX talk radio, callers discuss the peculiar nature of campaigning in Missouri, which because it contains...