Word: lazio
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There is a palpable sense of uncertainty in Buffalo on Wednesday. As reporters and political analysts from around the world gather in this upstate New York city for the first debate between U.S. Senate candidates Hillary Clinton and Rick Lazio, one perplexing question looms above all others...
...part, Lazio will be forced to reckon with his image as a lightweight. Interloper or not, Clinton is a formidable, occasionally forbidding public speaker, and her presence alone suggests a certain degree of seriousness. Not so Lazio - except among his die-hard supporters, the baby-faced congressman is not known for doing much other than running against Clinton. And while that characteristic is apparently compelling enough on its own to attract hefty contributions from swarms of anti-Clintonites, it's not enough to win the election...
...Wednesday night, U.S. Senate candidates Rick Lazio and Hillary Clinton bared their teeth at each other in Buffalo, N.Y., bickering and occasionally answering questions from the local press and local voters. Throughout the assaults, both candidates remained grimly composed. There was an abundance of contemptuous laughter - the kind of snicker you force out when you're trying to show an audience that your opponent is lying...
...They got down to business right from the starting bell. Lazio attacked Clinton on her lack of a record. Clinton assailed Lazio's role as Deoyt Whip under Newt Gingrich. Lazio shot back with a doozy: "You, of all people, Mrs. Clinton, should not bring up guilt by association." You almost expected the audience to hiss...
...maybe we shouldn't be surprised. After all, anti-Clinton sentiment (directed at both Hillary and Bill) is alive and well and living in GOP checkbooks, and now that George W. has begun to show signs of weakness, many Republicans may figure Lazio is their last, best chance for revenge against the First Family...