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...presidential debate was in a shambles. Ms. Musselwhite had assigned each group of fourth-graders the task of staging a mock debate and none of us would be Ronald Reagan. Most of us wanted to be John Anderson, a few kids said they guessed they'd play Carter but absolutely everyone refused to be Bonzo. Finally the nerdy boy who always reminded our teacher to collect the homework reluctantly volunteered to play Reagan...
Ididn't vote for a Democrat in my first election, either. In a fourth grade mock election in 1980, I cast a ballot (a nicely colored one, however) for John Anderson, the independent candidate running against Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter. Even with my feeble understanding of politics, I knew that Reagan wasn't going to be my sort of politician. And the next year, when he declared ketchup to be a vegetable in school lunches, I knew he was the wrong man for the job. For my friends who ate a balanced meal only at school, shriveled hamburgers, tater...
...press kit distributed to reporters at the Democratic National Convention shrewdly listed Elvis Aron Presley as Entertainment Coordinator, and Clinton staff I.D.s included mock-ups of the Elvis stamp with a horn-blowing Clinton replacing the King. Eager to get in on the act, running mate Al Gore began his convention speech by remarking that he never thought he would be "the warm-up act for Elvis...
Student political activists engaged in a mock presidential debate sponsored by the Institute of Politics last night...
...taken 200 years, but at last those protests from White House occupants -- some real, some mock -- about the duties and the life in and around the grand old mansion have faded. George Bush still gets misty-eyed wandering those corridors of history and confesses, "I love it here." Bill Clinton never got over his boyhood handshake with John Kennedy in the Rose + Garden -- a quasi-religious experience -- and he has devoted his life to going back there to live...