Word: em
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Buchanan is wooing this group too, but with a message that is pitched not at the wealthy but at the working class. At a rally in South Carolina he nearly took the paint off the walls with his mount-'em-up speech. He promises not what he will do as President, but what "we" will do--shut down the border, get out of world organizations, impose tariffs. The result is a subtle but powerful co-opt of the listener. Dole, by comparison, still talks about that guy Bob Dole, as if he were just a stand-in for the real...
...reminded Dole of those words last summer, he muttered his standard "Hmmmmm" and mumbled, "Yeah, I guess this time I've really got to say why I want the thing, you know. I mean, what I'd do with it, right? Got to get some new ideas and flesh 'em out. Not all at once. You can't do it in one big sermon. It'll come." Maybe so, but it hasn't yet. If it doesn't soon, Buchanan's verdict--"Bob's sooo boring"--will be the electorate's too, and Richard Nixon will be proved right once...
...joyous event. Charles was happy because he thought he was pleasing his parents, particularly his father. Diana was happy because she had just received a buck-up note from Charles. He wrote of his pride in her and went on to give her some advice: "Just look 'em in the eye and knock 'em dead...
...country singer crooned, "You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em"; Glassman promptly ended the inquiry and the matter was declared "a dead issue...
...They all make promises, and they can't meet those promises that they make when they go to Washington.... They've all got a lost of good points, but you can't put 'em all in one guy, you know, and that's the problem...