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Lazio changed the subject in Buffalo. Early on, after Clinton offered a lame defense of her disastrous 1994 health-care-reform plan, Lazio scored by saying that "a New Yorker would never have made that proposal," neatly tying her health-care problem to her carpetbagger problem. He had a nice line ready for her attempts to yoke him to Gingrich--"Mrs. Clinton, you of all people shouldn't try to make guilt by association"--but delivered it like a dinner-theater Hamlet, all portent and no grace. Then his aggressive stage direction got the best of him, and he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Little Ricky Gets Rough | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

...everyone as a tough, mean message masseur. "RATS" was perfectly framed in the screen, while the other letters in the special effect bounced randomly across the screen to the beat of background music. On the other side of the argument the case was made that it was a pretty lame gambit, lacking such art that it must be a mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When a Campaign Is Laughing, It's in Trouble | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

President Clinton may a lame duck, but that does not mean he is limping off the political stage. Instead, like a bee sensing the approach of winter, he's buzzing around furiously, trying to make the most of his last moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out, Cartagena — Here he Comes! | 8/31/2000 | See Source »

...Bush tried a couple days ago - the TV set on the counter, Gore's image, the Buddhist temple, the nonsense about inventing the Internet, an annoyingly sarcastic woman's voiceover saying, there's dumb old Al reinventing himself again (yeah, right, like we wouldn't notice) - is a lame, counterproductive effort, foolishly half-hearted and barbless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Playing Rough, Bush Runs a Big Risk | 8/31/2000 | See Source »

...Allen/Roberto Suro hears Bush issue "a strong indictment today of the Clinton administration's military policy, warning of its 'long neglect' of soldiers and 'a military in decline' - an assessment that drew an unusually swift and pointed response from the secretary of defense." This is one touchy bunch of lame ducks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics Junkie: Back on the Back Burner | 8/22/2000 | See Source »

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