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...Bill Clinton and Al Gore created 22 million new jobs." So says Democratic National Committee chief Terry McAuliffe and just about every Democrat alive. How can anyone believe this? Clinton did not create any jobs. Bill Gates did. Andy Grove did. Jeff Bezos did. In fact, they created an industry. The '90s were a decade when the silicon chip met the "peace dividend" - billions saved by the ending of the cold war - and gave us an economic boom. Clinton deserves credit for not getting in the way. He fulfilled the economic Hippocratic oath: first do no harm. Not screwing...
...market. And though Fox News succors Republicans, its true significance is broader: it points to a future in which media are more targeted and more blatant about their biases. It's too early to know if Al Franken's stab at liberal radio will thrive or if Al Gore's liberal cable channel will ever get off the ground, but both are Murdoch ricochets, for better or for worse...
Joseph N. Sanberg ’01-’02, O’Mary’s close friend and fellow Gore staffer, remembers comforting friends that had broken down. “It was a mixture of fatigue, stress, sadness,” he says. “You felt like it had all come to an end.” It hadn’t. Campaign chairman William Daley took to the stage to announce that Florida was still under dispute. Just then, as O’Mary and Sanberg remember it, the rain stopped...
...youthful political elite, the under-30 veterans of Clinton and Gore, the best bet to get back to the White House was, at that point, to join up with Kerry or Edwards...
...Dean campaign’s gradual transition into a roaring success broke all the rules. “When I’d done trips for Al or Tipper Gore or for Hillary Clinton, the rule of thumb was, 100 people say they’re going to show up, 75 will,” says O’Mary. “If for Howard Dean 100 people said they were going to show up, you better have room...