Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...character is still important in deciding who should be President; a campaign shouldn't be turned into a Sunday school picnic where money, religion and politics are off limits. But neither the candidates, who have similarly flawed histories, nor the press, which reduces moral subjects to cartoon dimensions, is well positioned to weigh one man's soul against another's. Dole has had a free ride for several weeks. But beware. There's time for several more news cycles and rules changes without notice. Clinton could decide to defend himself so that any victory he has contains an element...
...problem too because these crimes are fast becoming the most egregious on Wall Street. The hot stock market is attracting con artists like ants to a picnic. In the bull market of the 1980s, big-shot investment bankers swapped secret merger information for suitcases stuffed with cash. Giuliani sent a couple of bankers to jail in his day. But many others walked. The result? Stocks still routinely shoot higher ahead of big merger news--a sure sign that the insider-trading problem is anything but licked...
...came down from Mars and saw this debate, you might think that Al Gore was a moderate Republican...and Jack Kemp was the Democrat." Even Dole, in an interview with ABC's Ted Koppel, cracked that Kemp and Gore got along so famously that "it looked like a fraternity picnic there for a while...
...fight over who controlled the message masked a sharper debate over what Dole's message should be. Sipple & Co. wanted a clean shot: tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts. Reed argued that Sipple should sell a broader vision, the whole picnic of budget balancing and tax cuts and spending proposals that Dole laid out before the convention. Dole himself wanted to do the hard thing, offer not just the tax cuts but the specific plans to pay for them. When the ad finally aired, tax cuts were third on the list after spending cuts and a balanced budget, and Sipple...
...convention was the culmination of that Clinton-Morris calculation. The message was: We don't have parties, we have relatives, a big national family picnic. Which is why on the first day, politicians were banished from sight. Actor Christopher Reeve barely mentioned Clinton in his speech, and when he talked about government, it was to describe it as the benign paternalistic arm ready to embrace America's civic life as a mirror of the homes baby boomers grew up in. Sarah Brady, the gun-control advocate, brought her wheelchair-bound husband onstage to deliver another above-the-fray message: Guns...