Word: gore
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...North American Free Trade Agreement, and looked likely -- but far from certain -- to win an excruciatingly close House vote next Wednesday. So why risk giving last-minute national TV exposure to Ross Perot, NAFTA's loudest foe? Especially in the form of a debate with Vice President Al Gore, whose wooden performance in a face-off against Dan Quayle last fall contrasted painfully with Perot's barbed wisecracks in his own debates with Clinton and George Bush...
Clinton did have his reasons. He and Gore had been trying to find some whiz- bang final event that would impress an apathetic public. They were intrigued by White House poll findings suggesting that for all the fervor of his supporters, Perot also arouses considerable antipathy -- so much so that public support for NAFTA rises sharply when people find out the jug-eared Texan is against it. Maybe, they thought, the way to galvanize public support would be to remind people vividly who was leading the charge against NAFTA...
...performance all the more extraordinary when one realizes that Wadham is given none of the clever lines or emotional speeches that the other characters receive. The only thing Pitt is passionate about is cutting waste--at times he almost sounds like Al Gore in his plea for efficiency. Yet Pitt, for all his faults, is one of the more sympathetic characters in the play. Incessantly goaded about his loss of America and his father's own descent into madness, Pitt retreats further and further into himself, carrying the audience with him. When George III returns to sanity, the corresponding success...
This image was presented most starkly by an American who called Larry King from Mexico City last night to address Perot and Gore. "There are thousands of Japanese here," she said. "They are waiting, they are lurking...
Politicians are expert emotional-button pushers, and Ross Perot is the unquestioned champion of them all. But as Gore said last night while he was wining the CNN studio floor with Perot's bruised ego, "The politics of negativism and fear only...