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...desperate to find something important to discuss. "This is T-I-M-E, dawg. This article has got to be about something bigger. It's got to be talking about the movie and its comment on society. Not to be too serious. God, that is serious," he says, his Clintonian need to be liked getting the better of him. Then he starts to worry again. "I know it's going to wind up being about the construction of what to make the article about. That's what it's going to be about: Why the hell...
...terms, universal health care. McCain has also been butting heads with Bush on the question of tax cuts--arguing that the truly conservative position is to keep the tax cut modest and use the surplus to save Social Security and pay down the debt. Bush calls that a Clintonian approach--on Friday in South Carolina he began airing TV spots saying as much--but according to the new TIME/CNN poll, nearly three-quarters of likely G.O.P. primary voters in the state agree with McCain. Does that make him a conservative apostate or a new kind of conservative...
This is not to say that Gore is the only hedger in the race. Bush fudges whether he intends to make abortion illegal, as the Republican platform he embraced would do. His insistence that being a Bush closed as many doors as it opened is a Clintonian fable. Bradley's signature flip-flop is on ethanol, which he once damned as a ludicrous subsidy; but as a presidential candidate he embraced it after saying a bit disingenuously that Iowans had helped change his mind. Bradley didn't reveal his heart ailment until it forced him to the hospital...
...going in. It was Graham, the House Judiciary Committee member and former Air Force prosecutor, who introduced McCain at rallies last week with a terrific down-home twang. And it was Graham whom McCain pointed to every time a desperate Bush tried to tar the Senator as a Clintonian liberal...
...mistake to allow Clinton's difficulties to color my impressions of Gore, who was put in the terrible position of having to stand by his boss while also maintaining political distance, I have lately found it more difficult to see the two men as separate when Gore uses a Clintonian expression...