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Last month during the debate in New Hampshire between Democratic presidential frontrunners Al Gore '69 and Bill Bradley, an audience member posed the question: What qualities do you consider most important in a leader? The answers Gore and Bradley gave were trite and forgettable, but the significance of the query hung heavy in the air. In a post-Watergate, post-Lewinsky world, what universal attributes, if any, can we expect to be intrinsic to the leader of our country? Honesty? Morality? Intelligence...
...latter attribute has actually decreased in importance during this year's presidential campaign. Candidates have made a concerted effort to appeal to the anti-intellectual preferences of certain voters. John McCain, a Republican presidential candidate, frequently jokes about his fifth-from-the-bottom finish at the U.S. Naval Academy. Gore and Bradley have similarly made the effort to downplay their respective Harvard and Princeton educations in recent months...
Call out the medics! The issue of health care is shaping up to be the bloody main battleground between Democratic presidential candidates Al Gore and Bill Bradley. On Monday Bradley, in a speech to the American Public Health Association, outlined his proposal to blanket 95 percent of the population with health care coverage. Bradley claims his plan will cost $500 to $650 billion over 10 years, and can be easily paid for out of the $1 trillion in expected budget surpluses in that period. At the same time, he dug into Gore as showing a lack of guts...
...remarks were the first time Bradley has fired back at Gore, who has criticized his health care proposal repeatedly over the past three weeks. And within hours, the salvos were continuing, with Gore touting a new analysis of Bradley's national health plan that concludes that it would cover only 1 percent more people than Gore's own plan but cost more than three times as much. "In short, [Bradley] offers a flawed, trillion-dollar plan that will cost the American people even more in the long run," Gore said in a statement...
TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson cautions voters to take both candidates' figures with a grain of salt. "The surplus on which Bradley's plan relies is one of the fundamental lies in Washington, and Gore relies on the same lie in his plan," says Dickerson. But, he adds, Bradley has more to lose by campaigning on shaky budget projections, as Gore is part of the Clinton administration (which has trumpeted the surplus), "so you'd expect that charade from him. But Bradley has suggested his is a different type of campaign, that he's a politician of a higher moral...