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...Tipper and I, along with my vice presidential running mate, Joe Lieberman, and his wife, Hadassah, flew overnight from Los Angeles following the Democratic National Convention to begin our journey. Despite only a few hours of sleep on the plane, the cheers of the delegates filled our hearts overnight and buoyed us with energy. Daybreak in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the embarkation point for our cruise, also proved inspiring as thousands of campaign supporters lined the shore...
...brief hiatus from the water on our third day of travel as Tipper and I, again joined by Joe and Hadassah Lieberman, boarded campaign buses and traversed the Hawkeye State. We stopped at local firehouses, diners, and parks, where I had the pleasure of introducing my running mate and his wife to some old friends from our caucus days...
...does. But he uses Clinton's alternate name. At the request of the Gore campaign, Clinton quietly took an alternate name during the primaries. His alternate name became "This Administration." So when the question is, "If your running mate said that Bill Clinton was immoral, how could you have said that he's one of our greatest Presidents?", Gore says, "This Administration has brought the American people the longest sustained economic etc., etc." In Arkansas, taking an alternate name is easily done by mail; in fact, Clinton was able to use the same form to change his birth date...
When Al announced his running mate last week, Kristin was the only Gore missing from the stage in Nashville. It would have been nice to be there, she says, "but I was working. They totally understood." For one Gore, there are still times when the cons outweigh the pros...
...respect. But Gore is promising to keep the budget balanced and pay down the debt, and that's Alan Greenspan's favorite issue, which is good enough for me. Bush's numbers don't add up - this is where John Kasich would have come in handy as a running mate - and if they still don't, he'll lose me in November, along with a lot of other people who see the relative fiscal discipline of the Clinton years as the catalyst behind this durable boom...