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...Maybe it was the format - certainly Cheney seems happier around a table than behind a podium. It could have been the opening pledge, Lieberman's let's-be-nice-tonight version of the Al Gore and Jack Kemp football-for-chlorofluorocarbons gambit, but if it was it a gambit, it paid off for everybody involved. Yes, Cheney's performance was a bit of a revelation, mostly because it really didn't look like a performance (Lieberman, fonder of the Gore catch phrases but so much gentler than Gore when he spits them out, was merely as affable as expected...
...first presidential debate on Tuesday made that clear. The vice presidential debate two nights later, between Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman, cast an interesting light upon the depressing dilemma in which Americans find themselves...
Cheney and Lieberman are grown men, stable and experienced. There are many Americans more qualified than they, but Cheney and Lieberman at least come to the people not as sons, but as fathers. It's an important distinction. Age has little to do with it. Some men remain sons all of their lives. No man should become president until he has crossed the psychological and moral line into the responsibility of fatherhood. The same distinction will apply to mothers and daughters as women become regulars in presidential politics...
...know, Cheney and Lieberman looked and sounded about as exciting as a school board meeting - low-keyed and matter-of-fact. That is what was attractive about the encounter: It seemed like the best of the American system - civic-minded, without the idiocies of ego and hype that have contaminated the battle of the inadequate sons...
Fathers and Sons: In neither Lieberman nor Cheney does one detect the frantic inner neediness of Al Gore (so much in evidence in his silly behavior in the Boston debate, his puffing and childish distortions of the truth) or the dangerous vacuity of George W. Bush, who has failed for most of his life to exhibit the seriousness or the intellectual curiosity a citizen should expect in a candidate aspiring to move into the house where Jefferson, Lincoln and the Roosevelts lived...