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MAYBE ABE LINCOLN wasn't really born in a log cabin, but he certainly wasn't rich, or even middle-class. And he became president--while in the 1990's, Bob Kerrey and Paul Tsongas couldn't even afford to hang on until the Democratic Convention...
...Kerrey and Tsongas did the voters a disservice when they dropped out of the race. If they had stayed in and conducted less expensive no-frills campaigns--as Tsongas did at the start--they might have helped shift the focus of the electoral process from images to ideas. Instead, Kerrey blew all his money on PR, and even Tsongas attempted to fight on Clinton's terms. This just reinforced the destructive notion that the race is to the slick...
...KERREY (-2) A war hero with high name recognition. But erratic. Try John Kerry of Massachusetts: he's strong on foreign affairs, and besides half the voters think he's Bob Kerrey anyway...
...Look, when you ran that ad talking about how you were the truth teller, the only truth teller, that everybody else is running based on polls, and I was trying to increase the deficit with the middle-class tax cut, you knew it wasn't so. ((Nebraska Senator Bob)) Kerrey and I paid for the middle- class tax cut ((by increasing the tax bite on the wealthiest Americans)). So I don't know what your screaming means...
...become a national sport. Richard Gephardt, whose 1988 presidential campaign pioneered postcommunist xenophobia, gave us a precursor of the game with his anti-Korea TV ads. Michael Dukakis got more to the point with a campaign ad featuring an ominously rising sun. Now even a sensible moderate like Bob Kerrey goes on TV openly exhorting his countrymen to "Fight back, America," leaving little doubt as to whom we are to fight now that the Soviets are no more...