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...snort and charge. "If you are five points down with five weeks to go, you have to be aggressive," says one, sounding more hopeful than anxious. But Bush is more likely to try a balanced approach, playing the optimistic, sunny candidate who played to such raves on "Regis" and "Oprah" this week while also working hard to raise doubts about Gore's credibility. Last week, under the cover of a heralded shift to policy, Bush and his aides were trying to steal the sting from the vice president's assaults by raising doubts about anything he said: hammering on Gore...
George W. Bush just had his first good week since the convention, and there's only one explanation: Oprah. She can sell mediocre books, why not slumping candidates? In the dog days of his a__hole aside and the "subliminable" RATS ad, Bush swore he would switch to campaigning on issues. But that was a short-lived promise to silence critics worried about how quickly Gore had closed the charm gap. Last Wednesday Bush admitted he would be too busy this fall to reveal any details of his missile-defense system. He conceded earlier that he was having a hard...
...Oprah, so hospitable last week to Al Gore, was being nice to W. and did not press the usual Democratic case against Bush...
...When the subject of capital punishment came up, and Bush briskly, unapologetically pronounced himself satisfied that all of the 143 people executed during his tenure as governor were a) guilty as charged, and b) given their fair chance in court, Oprah's producers chose to record the frisson in the studio by panning a succession of grave, skeptical female faces...
...slightly weird, in any case, that presidential candidates have to submit to ordeal by Oprah. It makes one wonder whether it is George Bush who's dumb, or something in the culture...