Word: gore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it was just a little misunderstanding, a thing that happens from time to time in every family. Maybe Al Gore really had someplace better to be at the moment Bill Clinton arrived on the South Lawn last Monday morning to announce that the gods had bestowed an extra trillion--with a t--dollars on the U.S. Treasury. Maybe Gore, a serious man who worries about serious things, had to polish the speech he was making that afternoon in Philadelphia on the war against cancer. Maybe the White House had pressed him to try to make the event, and Gore...
Maybe. But maybe Al Gore can't compartmentalize as neatly as his boss. How can he share in Clinton's public successes when he's been busy denouncing the President's personal failings, staking his claim as a family man and promising to protect the dignity of the office? The stories about a Clinton-Gore feud have been circulating for more than two weeks, to the point that the President had to spend the better part of his press conference last week denying them. To students of royal families, all the signs of marital strain are there. The couple manage...
...money, after all, is how Iron John got his $6.1 million. Soft money, contributed by the bushel to the party and distributed as the DNC and RNC see fit, doesn't come into play until the primaries are over. For McCain, it is plenty evil enough. For Clinton and Gore, soft money was the Buddhist monks and the Lincoln bedroom. For the Republicans, it is the NRA and Big Tobacco ? and the source of Mitch McConnell's power. For a lonely maverick on Capitol Hill, it is the source of all that is infuriating about lawmaking: pork barrels, partisanship, gridlock...
...spend too much time soliciting money: A career in the House, where members have two-year terms, can be an uninterrupted string of fund-raisers. After six and a half years in office, President Clinton is still raising money ? the DNC, after all, needs the money to make sure Gore (or Bradley) can compete with Bush when the conventions have crowned their kings. The money hawks like McConnell are right about one thing ? in this media-saturated age, it costs plenty to make your voice heard above the din. But McCain and the reformers have a point too. If politicians...
...Results like that were catnip for Bill Clinton on Thursday as he wound up his four-day visit with the nation?s economic have-nots ? "We have to close that gap," the lame-duck President proclaimed ? and unlimited access to the Internet is sure to be one of Al Gore?s favorite themes in the months ahead. Hey, the school-wiring veep might even be able convince some newcomers he invented the whole thing...