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President Bush is doing his best to stay out of the cross fire, and who can blame him? California, with its 55 electoral votes, has foiled him and his Administration's ambitions there before. In 2000 Bush made a dozen campaign swings there, only to get walloped by Al Gore, who hardly ever visited. Political strategist Karl Rove's perceived effort to sway last year's G.O.P. gubernatorial primary for the moderate former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan annoyed conservatives and left relations between the state party and the White House prickly after Simon won. So officials...
...just about concluded that the real problem may be the President himself and that next year we ought to fire him and get a new one." AL GORE, former Vice President, in a speech at New York University in which he also said he would not be a candidate...
...excitement factor alone could be enough to make minority Democrats take a look at the brusque New Englander. Dean shows no sign of peaking too early, says Donna Brazile, who was Al Gore's 2000 campaign manager and is one of her party's more effective minority organizers. "He's all that and a stick of gum. He's that hot. The flavor has not left him." She mentions a conversation with a prominent bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest African-American denomination. "I've seen all these cats, but I like Dean," the bishop told Brazile...
...million or $80 million out of the public school system in South Carolina? ... Has your job moved to Indonesia? ... And the answer is, if you don't like the answers to those questions, maybe you should think about voting Democratic." A solid argument but one that failed for Al Gore, himself a nominal Southerner, four years ago. And it may come across as insulting to tell people they are poor--and then tell them their own votes are to blame...
Though I don't meditate as religiously, I can see Gore's point. Taking time out of our video-and Wi-Fi-drenched lives to rediscover the present is a worthwhile activity. And I felt a tangible difference when, in my postmeditative buzz, I would walk down the street hyperaware of my surroundings, like some not particularly useful superhero power. I could even get myself to not need to go to the bathroom if I concentrated on my bladder and accepted its fullness, though I'm not really sure this is a health benefit. But if I weren...