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...Gore winnowed his list of prospective running mates last month, at least one prominent Democrat was less than thrilled with the idea that Joe Lieberman might get the nod. Bill Clinton praised the choice after it was made, but before the fact, he railed privately about how much Lieberman's latest book, In Praise of Public Life, ticked him off. ("The Clinton-Lewinsky saga," Lieberman writes, "is the most vivid example we have of the virus of lost standards.") Clinton told friends he was sick and tired of Lieberman's sanctimony. The Senator's famous 1998 speech condemning Clinton...
Clinton can't seem to give it a rest either. Last Thursday he saw to it that a week of glowing press reports about the Gore-Lieberman road show would end with a return to Monicaville--thanks to Clinton's 75-minute rumination on his "terrible mistake" at an evangelical ministers' conference in Illinois. Blindsided just four days before the start of the Democratic Convention, the Gore campaign managed to stay on course, emphasizing Clinton's remark that "no fair-minded person would blame [Gore] for the mistakes I've made." But to Gore and his advisers, the incident only...
...Gore doesn't seem so bad. In the afterglow of Philadelphia, he'd seemed stale, small and eminently unelectable; two weeks later, with Joe Lieberman and a meaty acceptance speech under his belt, Gore and his adequately presented laundry list of presidential priorities seem to have a shot at properly benefiting from a stay-the-course mindset in this prosperous age. Bush may be the unknown again now - he's left Gore room to cast him as a smiling face with a dark reactionary soul, whereas Gore, however disconcerting his sudden bust of fighting populism may be to the satisfied...
...appeared noticeably tired all evening, Douglas stole into Bender's kitchen and took some desserts up to Fox to revive his spirits. "Michael was a real mensch all night," said Jeffrey Podolsky, George magazine's entertainment editor, clearly showing that all things Jewish are now in - thanks to Joe Lieberman's historic run as the first Jew on a presidential ticket...
...Nobody at the party seemed too concerned that Lieberman would mess with Hollywood, despite his earlier criticism that the film and music industry needed to monitor themselves. Everybody has been having too much fun this week celebrity-spotting. Hey, Donna Shalala, guess who just walked...