Word: hortons
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...HORTON HEARS A HOOCHIE Tupac Shakur and Dr. Seuss are the kings of postmortem product. Seuss's ninth posthumous book shipped last week; Shakur is on his fifth beyond-the-grave album. How do they stack...
...debates would alienate his supporters. In part, he was in a box. He'd set himself up as a better sort of politician, and the few times he slipped from his perch--clumsily attacking Gore for a 15-year-old pro-tobacco vote or claiming that Gore introduced Willie Horton to the world during the 1988 Democratic primaries--Bradley was roundly criticized. (That he chose to attack Gore on two of his Administration's strongest issues--tobacco and race--was just another sign of Bradley's tactical deficiencies.) But it's also true that Bradley really did (and still does...
Every time Bradley tries to take a shot in return, he finds Team Gore there to block it. He accused Gore of introducing Willie Horton into politics in 1988, only to find that the Vice President had none other than his old rival Michael Dukakis on hand to vouch that it hadn't been Gore's idea to put the racial tinge on the issue of prison furloughs but the Republicans'. When the former New Jersey Senator raised Gore's 1985 Senate vote against Bradley's antitobacco amendment, the Vice President's campaign called him desperate and made it stick...