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...Gore needs any more evidence that he's no longer Prince Albert of the Democrats, he'll get it this weekend. The 2004 presidential shopping season is under way--with the rich Democrats who write big campaign checks browsing for a candidate to support--and Gore may be a too familiar face in a crowded field. In 2000 he had the party's nomination and its fat-cat donors all to himself--but blew the race. This Friday, Saturday and Sunday the big-money players will be wooed at two competing events: Gore's "donor retreat" at the Peabody Hotel...
...whose face that will be. Around Labor Day, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry will try to charm the money men (they are overwhelmingly male) at the Nantucket, Mass., estate of his wife, ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz. And for donors who don't like to venture too far from K Street, Gore's former running mate, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, held a get-together a few weeks ago at a downtown D.C. hotel...
With so many hungry men looking to take his place, Gore finds himself the one with the most to prove in the money race. His 2000 campaign left donors furious over what they saw as an inept operation; more recently, they have been bewildered by his near disappearance from the political scene. No wonder others have come courting. "There are a number of important national Democratic leaders who I have found it important to support, including Al Gore," says Alan Solomont, the Democratic Party's former national finance chairman. All the players will be looking at second-quarter fund-raising...
After voting overwhelmingly for Al Gore ’69 and his Jewish running mate, then noisily questioning Bush’s legitimacy, we have fallen into line as the administration’s loyal chorus, unthinkingly accepting every antiterrorism measure and muting our criticism of the administration’s atrocious record on other issues in the hope that Bush will link security at home to support for Israeli security. American Jews, historically at the forefront of every fight for minority rights and expansive civil liberties, have thus freely surrendered to Bush any political leverage they might have...
Strengths: Has the ability to express up to six emotions, or roughly 5.9999 more than Al Gore...