Word: elvises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Elvis hasn't explicitly endorsed Clinton, it's clear where his allegiances lie. According to the Weekly World News, a leading extraterrestrial envoy heartily supports Clinton's quest. ("Alien Backs Clinton," August 11, page one.) And since Elvis has been known to consort with the UFO crowd while traveling...
You see, this election isn't about change. It's not about trust, either. It's about Elvis. And for George Bush to pull off an upset in November, he'll need to address the Elvis factor more frequently than he has so far in his anemic campaign.
Bush's convention speech was a dramatic exception. Accusing Clinton of constantly taking numerous positions on a single issue, the president remarked that the Arkansas governor "has been spotted in more places than Elvis." And a few minutes later, he bashed Clinton's "Elvis Economics."
But in a nation where over 1,000 citizens are Elvis impersonators, where at the current rate of growth one in 12 American males will be Elvis mimics by the close of the century, Bush must do more or accept that his party will be brought to its knees by...
Elvis' spirit lives on. Sure, he's dead, more or less, and that might prevent him from landing a Cabinet post. But for the Democrats, he is the resurrection and the life, the savior for a party that has lost symbolic turf for a decade and a half. And for...