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Some of the revelations surrounding Bill Clinton's eleventh-hour pardons have fallen under the "Gosh, that's embarrassing" category. Take Hugh Rodham's lobbying effort - and his $400,000 payday after securing two pardons from his brother-in-law. Or even the weekend allegations that Rodham asked White House lawyers about pardons or commutations for Nora and Eugene Lum, a high-powered couple convicted of making illegal campaign contributions to Democrats. (The query, if it was made, was unsuccessful - neither Lum was pardoned...
...this one. While on the phone with Prime Minister-elect Sharon to congratulate him on his victory, Bush remarked, "Isn't it funny that I was elected President and you were elected Prime Minister?" Indeed. Though experts note that the correct response would be, "Oh my gosh! We're, like, twinsies!" they also note that Bush should perhaps begin to pay attention to the Middle East--a problem Clinton never...
...tribal thing: Yes, yes, I know. I've never seen one of those tribal councils that end each episode and result in someone getting the boot. So maybe they're really riveting. But c'mon. They sound goofy as hell. These are people from places like Long Island, for gosh sakes. The only tribal councils they're allowed to go to are Mets games. Instead, how 'bout something nicely understated, like they all sit down to dinner at places with their names on the plate, only - get this - one person doesn't have a place. Wouldn't that be nicely...
...nuttiest presidential election in a century closed out with plenty of suggestions (especially from the Democrats, who found Al Gore's popular-vote win to be an excellent moral pedestal). Ditch the electoral college (thank you, Hillary). Nationalize the ballot. And for gosh sakes, this is the Information Age - let's get the technology by which we read the public will out of the age of disco...
...When I first heard that Florida was having a problem, I thought, 'Oh gosh. Not again,'" Doddo says. "In a way, it's typical Florida...