Word: marathonic
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...they wait for legal opinions from secretary of state Katherine Harris, Roberts said, "I'm not asking for an opinion, I'm asking for a vote." Burton later accused Roberts of "bushwhacking" him. He'd thought they were on friendly terms, having taken smoking breaks with Roberts during their marathon counting sessions...
Bush concluded his marathon 18-month campaign, in which he spent $167 million, with a midnight rally at the Austin airport Monday night, and then got four to five hours of sleep before spending a low-key Election Day with his family...
...bunch of dumbasses, and they will hammer him for it - if nothing else to mitigate their own embarrassment. What was confidence yesterday has become questionable today and will be called arrogant tomorrow. The afternoon jogs. The naps. The relatively early finish to the campaign, compared with Gore's marathon. And above all, that party: As I write, you can bet a dozen political scribes are trying to find new ways to describe it as the Frat Party That...
...Sunday I walked down First Avenue as tens of thousands of runners came gasping past - panting, bedraggled, heading toward the finish of the New York Marathon. They looked awful - basket cases pounding along in their underwear. They looked like Jimmy Carter that time he marathoned himself to a frazzle in the Catoctin Mountains near Camp David and had to be helped off by Secret Service agents...
American politics looks just about as seedy and exhausted as it comes baying toward the finish of the presidential race. I had a nasty flash of self-awareness (seeing us as others see us) on the car radio heading away from the marathon when I tuned in an Irish-American station. It quoted a Dublin political columnist who remarked that the American presidential race amounted to a choice between a creep and a moron. It's OK when WE say it, Paddy, but watch yourself. I found myself feeling almost protective about Gore and Bush. That's OUR creep...