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...Bush benefited from a double standard. Residual disdain for the teacher's pet makes it satisfying to catch a smarty pants like Gore in an error, while it's no fun to go after the class cutup. This is not meant to excuse Gore's earlier performance in Boston or withhold credit from Bush for passing an exam on world affairs. But had the standard of accuracy operating in the first debate been applied in the second, Bush would not have fared as well. For instance, Bush said we should pull our troops out of Haiti, but there...
Bush has been most effective, he further noted, in addressing the issue of Gore's character. An ad that features women expressing disdain while viewing clips of the vice president at the famed Buddhist temple fundraiser and making his claim that he had invented the Internet incited the most reaction from the members of the audience, who cheered when the ad was aired at the forum...
...crimes tribunal. "He wants the Serbian people to be proud," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told TIME, "but he is not an ethnic killer. He is not a former communist, and he believes in the rule of law." And while Kostunica doesn't hide his disdain for U.S. officials, he is eager to normalize relations with the E.U. and join European institutions such as the Stability Pact--which binds members to cooperation and nonaggression--all of which would impel him to blunt his nationalist impulses. Says a hopeful Stojan Cerovic, a columnist at the Yugoslav newsmagazine Vreme: "There...
...wording, his breathing. He was yanked back by an invisible harness whenever he came close to sneering, to uttering a personal anecdote that would be leapt on by some network-news Truth Squad. When he did attack Bush on a point of fact, the effort to reign in his disdain was palpable: questioning a Bush answer on Texas hate-crimes laws, he said, dispassionately, "I may have been misled by the reports that were in the news." You could practically see the bite marks he left on his tongue...
...this hypocrisy? After all, in seeking to replace a President who has gone so far as to test politically palatable vacation spots, Bush brandishes his disdain for the practice as proof of his own titanium character. He says over and over he is a "plainspoken man." But Bush is far more dependent on polls for shaping his message than he likes to admit, even if there is scant evidence that he uses them to develop fundamental policy positions. Remember Bob Jones? According to the Bush campaign's focus groups, you don't. In fact, Bush aides gleefully cite research showing...