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...temerity to claim victory when the debate was over. But in the chaotic pressroom afterward, the Gephardt and Dukakis camps jousted with each other, as if to signify they were now both at the front of the Democratic pack. The two candidates had briefly skirmished over trade in the debate, with Gephardt defending his get-tough amendment ("It's not protectionism, it's promotionism") and Dukakis staking out the internationalist position ("I'm somebody who believes that more trade is better than less trade"). Gephardt, who has been searching for a debating foil since Gary Hart left the race, took...
...introduced almost apologetically with phrases like "with all due respect." Jesse Jackson and Delaware Senator Joseph Biden, the orators of the group, seemed to believe that flights of rhetoric would be unseemly at such a high-tone forum. Two of the technocratic moderates in the race, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., were largely content to enhance their images of quiet competence. That void left Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Illinois Senator Paul Simon and former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt in charge of providing charisma, a task akin to asking Comedian Jay Leno to dance Swan Lake...
...less a debate than a video dating service for Democrats. This image was enhanced by a format that included 90-second filmed autobiographies of each contender. There was something almost comic in the intense friendliness of seven candidates introducing themselves like this: "Hello there. I'm Congressman Dick Gephardt from Missouri. The Gephardt family is here in front of our home in Great Falls...
Michael Dukakis, an intellectual prisoner of the Massachusetts statehouse, thinks of defense policy as "one if by land, two if by sea." Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt has such difficulty with decisions that he chose plaid when asked to select a color for his campaign. Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, struggling to become the old Confederacy's new champion for 1988, chose "Southern" as his foreign language when attending a posh Washington prep school...
...fact of the matter is that I've been coming on charismatic the last month or two," said Dukakis. "I've learned everything I know from Bill Bradley." Bruce Babbitt demonstrated his yen for subtle complexity by playing off Jimmy Carter, with whom he is sometimes compared, and Gephardt, whom he must beat in Iowa. Like Carter, he deadpanned, he discusses issues with his children. Babbitt quoted his nine-year-old son as saying, "Dad, you've really got to do something about colorization of classic films." The father had to confess that Gephardt beat...