Word: gore
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Will I base my choice of who should be President on Liddy gender? As a staunch democrat, no I will not. AL Gore'69 (should he win the primary) will get my vote. Although I support Elizabeth Dole, I would feel more comfortable if she were explicitly pro-choice or if she hadn't spun herself as a cookie-backing homebody when we Knew her as Presidential candidate Bob Dole's wife. (Her catty comments about the rate at which Hillary's hair underwent transformation were particularly uncalled-for.) But if I were still in high school and choosing which...
...Gore has never learned the knack of talking about Gore. When he stumbles, it is spectacular. Two weeks ago, he made a legitimate claim that he was one of the Internet's earliest promoters and turned it into a audacious boast that he invented it. The gaffe damaged him in an area where his contrast with Clinton is favorable: credibility. Some blame for all this falls on Gore's jumbled and evolving campaign organization, which functions like a board of directors without a chairman, leaving his vice-presidential staff with the task of damage control. Still lacking is what...
Whatever his problems, Gore would not trade places with anyone else in the field. "He's out in an exposed position, revving up for a real campaign," says Squier, noting that Bush, for all his appeal, has been "unwilling to leave home. He is not strengthening himself for what is going to be a very rough-and-tumble campaign." Maybe. But while no one will ever make it through a modern presidential campaign without battle scars, it would help Gore if so many of his weren't self-inflicted...
...With reporting by Michael Duffy/Washington and Sally B. Donnelly, with Gore in New Hampshire
...outside Yugoslavia, is Russia. Moscow has been arguing against using force for months, and Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov was in the air bound for Washington last week when the decision to bomb was made. As his plane headed across the Atlantic, Primakov got a call from Vice President Al Gore, who said the air strikes were now inevitable and proposed a joint statement postponing the meeting. Primakov curtly refused and headed home...