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...more vital, questions surrounding the nature of American power and how to use it. Gore has outlined a robust foreign policy driven as much by morality as strategic self-interest. "Our national interest should be defined in terms of our values," he says. Gore and his running mate, Joseph Lieberman, have long been among the country's most hawkish Democrats. Both defied their party to support the Gulf War, and both lobbied Clinton for swifter intervention to stop ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo. Gore's doctrine of "forward engagement" extends beyond problems that bend to military action. He identifies...
Along with taking a stand on the issues, a leader should lead by example. Again the contrast between Gore and Bush could not be starker. In August, Gore made the bold and historic decision to select Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) as his running mate. He is committed to making a Gore administration the most diverse in U.S. history...
...abortion and all the rest. For one thing, in a Bush Restoration, we would be spared the prospect of another Maya Angelou Inauguration poem (the worst of Clinton's decisions, bar none), not to mention the preening of Streisand, Bolton and company, and the tedium of listening to Joe Lieberman tell us, yet again, about how much he loves his grandmother, his mother, his wife, his father...
...writer-director, son of political cartoonist Ranan Lurie, lets his large, attractive cast display varieties of charisma and chicanery for an hour or so. Then he has everyone make speeches; it's as though a TV remote control had switched from The West Wing to the Lieberman-Cheney debate. All drama, not to mention insider dish, gets lost in the wind tunnel. By the end, The Contender is as edifying and stultifying as--what would the real-life equivalent be?--a Ralph Nader presidency...
...domestic issues. And Gore, who had been almost visibly holding back through the first 45 minutes, finally sunk his teeth into the exchange, effectively grilling Bush on failed attempts to pass hate crimes legislation in Texas and managing to paint himself as an ally of both Cheney and Lieberman on the issue of gay marriage. On gun control, the differences were less stark: Gore favoring licensing but vowing to keep his hands off "hunters? and sportsmen?s rifles." Bush held up pretty well, pushing for stricter enforcement of current laws and returning again to his mantra of local control, implicating...