Word: podium
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...more astonishing that Dole rose to the podium on Thursday night, grabbed the tax-cut crowd by the lapels and told them they were only half right. There was still plenty wrong with America that a tax cut could not heal. It was as though he stared down his new partners, said I'll take your hope-growth-and-opportunity and stick it in my knapsack, but I'm here to deliver a message from the ages. "All things do not flow from wealth or poverty," he said. "All things flow from doing what is right...
...that anyone expecting a dry policy paper had wandered into the wrong room. Dole invited into the hall the God of the Old Testament, and all around the room the faithful stirred. The culture warriors and evangelicals complained all week that they had won the platform and lost the podium, as a series of pro-choice, big-tent messengers dominated prime time. But as it turned out, the big speech really belonged to the devout. Dole mentioned abortion barely at all, but he placed himself so clearly in the hell-in-a-handcart camp that he had to pull back...
...dull, sanitized-for-tv convention until that electric moment on Thursday night. Few knew that Bob Dole had injured his ankle getting out of the motorcade earlier. But he shook off the pain, courageously mounted the podium for his acceptance vault, completed the difficult 1 1/2 twist and stuck the landing. As he crumpled to the floor in pain, chants of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" filled the arena...
...that the podium show was any better. Speakers were whisked on and off the stage so fast it looked like the Tony Awards. San Diego not only marked the final metamorphosis of political conventions into TV productions; it also represented a low-water mark for political rhetoric. Susan Molinari, in her chirpy keynote speech, sounded like a PTA president urging more money for the school gym. Even Elizabeth Dole's acclaimed "Oprah-style" turn on the convention floor was the sort of motivational-speaker gimmick that plays better in person than on the TV screen; we've seen this...
Representative Susan Molinari, the keynote speaker of the Republican National Convention, comes to the podium after providing fresh proof that the behavior of American politicians is not affected in the slightest by ridicule. Officeholders who are confronted with stories of marijuana use in college, as Representative Molinari was after being invited to deliver the keynote, still describe what they were doing with the dreaded weed not as smoking or using but as "experimenting...