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...debate will be conducted in much the same style as the debate in 1992 town-hall meeting in Richmond where Clinton easily and comfortably outshone George Bush and Ross Perot. The format could spell bad news for Dole, both because he is not as accomplished as Clinton in off-the-cuff responses and because audience member might not ask a question that would allow him to bring up the ethics issues. The audience, screened by the Gallup organization to keep out hard-core Dole and Clinton supporters, was selected from registered San Diego County voters who say they are still...
Enemy and friend alike feel by now that they have figured the man out. They don't even disagree that much on the diagnosis. All but the most poisonous enemies give Clinton at least some credit for his remarkable capacity for empathy, for his off-the-cuff eloquence, for his intelligence and sincere dedication to public policy. And he probably doesn't have a friend in the world who wouldn't concede, in private, his excessive appetites, his "slickness," his too-easy willingness to abandon people and principles...
Other students have added the "seven dirty words" of George Carlin's comedy sketch to the signatures included at the end of their messages, following an off-the-cuff suggestion made some months ago by Simons as a way of combating Internet censorship...
There he goes again. Just when White House aides were recovering from President Clinton's recent off-the-cuff remarks that he'd raised taxes too much and that the nation was in a "funk," the President has confounded Democrats once more by confiding his self-doubts to a conservative pundit. During his hour-long phone call Wednesday with Ben Wattenberg, according to The New York Times, Clinton said he was dissatified with his own welfare reform proposal and distressed that he had wandered from a moderate democratic philosophy. "This is Bill Clinton once again thinking out loud about...
Earlier this year, political commentators laughed off Newi Gingrich's suggestion that homeless individuals could find upward mobility by acquiring laptops and joining the information age. Yet unlike most of the off-the-cuff comments which have cost the Speaker credibility over the past few months, this comment revealed part of the deeper structure of Republican plans for hegemony over the coming years. As the United States enters its post-industrial age, the conservative Congress is working hard to ensure continuing close ties with the builders of the information highway...