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...over," Rove said. "Congratulations, Mr. President." Bush turned on his TV. After 35 days of court reversals, hanging chads and false endings, the Texas Governor wasn't ready to start receiving salutes. "What are you talking about?" he said. Analysts on CNN seemed to be saying Al Gore still had a chance. "I'm not hearing the same thing you're hearing," Bush said. "I tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to call a lawyer." Bush dialed Jim Baker, his father's Secretary of State, who was leading the recount battle in Florida. But even...
...This is the sort of intellectual stubbornness that rarely makes an appearance in Washington today. Successful politicians, including, most recently, Bill Clinton, usually temper their sharp intelligence with an ability to communicate in populist terms. The policy wonk who lacks a light touch - think Al Gore or Paul Simon - is subject to attack by the popular press for what is perceived as snobbery, while our less intellectually engaged politicians - think George W. Bush or Tim Hutchinson - are lauded for their ability to connect with voters...
...That sounded just right. ("I agree with that. I agree with that," was Gore's response.) But humility was lost in the anger, dust and blood of Sept. 11; it will be nearly impossible to recover when victory is won in Iraq. Hubris could easily masquerade as reality. We are incomparably strong and admirably free, the most benign superpower in history. But the truths inherent in that proposition could easily lead to a falsehood - that we are justified in remaking the world as we choose. Certainly the world seems ripe to be remade. "We had certain strategies and policies...
...depended on your sitting on a toilet-seat cover and keeping the awful thing inside from bursting out, would you get up to reach for a toothpick? The answer is yes if a) you're in a horror movie; b) it's time for the first big blast-o-gore; and (c) you are played by Jason Lee, whose attempts at acting constitute their own special horror...
...democratic process was tested too. History's clock stopped on Nov. 7, 2000, when George W. Bush and Al Gore failed to conclude the presidential election in a timely fashion, with the contested votes of a few thousand Floridians standing between the two. On Dec. 12, 2000, Bush, loser of the popular vote, won the presidency on electoral votes by fiat of the Supreme Court in the most controversial election in the history of the union...