Word: platformization
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Even Gore himself is threading a fine needle: he picked a centrist running mate and shaped a centrist platform, all the while calling for the workers in the hall to unite. He's offering Clintonism in populist garb, centrism in a union suit. He never talks about issues like income inequality or the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. He talks about a prescription-drug benefit, the patient's bill of rights, targeted tax cuts, a secure retirement--ideas that speak to voters who are prospering as well as voters who are not. And his brew also includes centrist...
Taking the platform in Los Angeles last week, Hillary Clinton showed she has mastered the ballet of politics. She extended her arms like Evita to take in the cheers of the crowd, sweeping back and forth across the stage, the mistress of all she surveyed, breaking stride only for the hackneyed wave and point--with astonished delight, as if she'd just spotted a bunkmate from sleep-away camp. But once the supportive circle of six women Senators left the podium and the applause subsided, Hillary simply couldn't make music. To her the Staples Center was the world...
...Clinton fairly radiated the lightness of being: "See how mine enemies flee before my face." Everyone else who came to the platform seemed somehow smaller and dimmer. His own wife, though highly burnished, has settled into an unfortunate speaking style - hard, flat, dogmatic and haranguing, heavy with a metallic menace. She seems to have learned nothing from Bill about giving a speech...
...Everybody was fine about everything. It was a convention in the spirit of Barney ("I love you. You love me..."). No one wanted to spoil this party. As Jerry Falwell put it, if delegates would only count their blessings--the platform, the selection of Cheney--and "keep their mouths shut until their guy was in the White House," the infidels would be vanquished. In fact, party activists, once bent on cutting school breakfasts and midnight basketball, actually applauded Powell--who actually wore a white shirt. He chastised those who "miss no opportunity to roundly and loudly condemn affirmative action that...
...John Hagelin, a nuclear physicist who believes wind power and transcendental meditation are the way to start solving the country's problems. Hagelin, a soft-spoken professor at Maharishi University who is getting his first taste this week of national media exposure, has adopted most of Ross Perot's platform and won the support of most of the Texas billionaire's supporters. He plans to merge his current presidential candidacy with the Natural Law party with the Reform banner, rise above the current fray and pull a Jesse Ventura on an American electorate that he says is thirsting...