Word: jim
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Jim Johnson, a former top aide to Walter Mondale who chaired the Gore team responsible for negotiating the debates, said yesterday that the balance of topics the questions would address had been agreed upon by both campaigns...
Bush won, but to the Gore campaign's delight, he chose to give the first closing statement, allowing Gore to be asked the first question by moderator Jim Lehrer...
...sainted Jim Lehrer? Each question is an invitation to filibuster. All the questions are softballs that allow each candidate to go on autopilot. It's great that he's sticking to substance instead of tactics, but couldn't the questions have some focus? And he could ref a little better...
...This was supposed to be the close-to-the-vest debate, the stiff, podium-chained debate in which candidates stuck close to their stump speeches and took no chances with attacks. It wasn't exactly that -- in fact, it wasn't long before a passive Jim Lehrer let all those meticulously negotiated time constraints go right out the window...
...with Gore eagerly unspooling numbers, sighing during Bush's answers and constantly champing at Jim Lehrer's moderatorial bit, Bush held up. He swung back at the "pick-and-chooser" Gore's targeted tax cuts, and kept turning Gore's charges to the who-gets-the-surplus-money divide between him (hardworking taxpayers) and Gore (government, of course). And he came up with a handy Reaganesque response for whenever Gore puffed up the Adminstration's plans for any unsolved problem: "Why haven't you done it the last seven years?" If there was a stature gap between Gore and Bush...