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...Fundamentalist Christian tradition, and the level of born-again tub thumping is mercifully low - though there are signs that as a result of American cultural influence, it is creeping up among the young. Any political candidate who declared that God was on his side would be laughed off the podium as an idiot or a wowser (prude, intrusive bluenose...
...Really" opens with a shot of a TV in a kitchen. (Mais oui! Where else would a woman be watching television?) We see Al Gore at the notorious Buddhist temple fund-raiser, dissembling at a podium, claiming to have created the Internet. The female narrator sneers, "There's Al Gore reinventing himself on television again. Like I'm not going to notice. Who's he gonna be today? The Al Gore who raises campaign money at a Buddhist temple? Or the one who now promises campaign finance reform? Really...
...dogs in the middle of the night, wrapping a turkey in aluminum foil and roasting it in the fireplace. At this convention, Gore's image was the thing being cooked inside the shiny wrapper. And the message? As his old friend Bob Delabar put it Thursday night during a podium discussion of All Things Al, Gore "always seemed to me to be a regular and easygoing fellow...
...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's largest day-care center, and she the patient teacher, mouthing bromides in the singsongy style that Al Gore rose above for his own address. Along about the third reference to helping...
...course... "Hold schools accountable for results." The spot closes with Bush at the convention pledging to "renew the promise of America's public schools" - and you can't help noticing that, in fact, Bush behind a podium, grinning, pushing those words out, seems himself like a proud fourth grader giving a report on a simple children's book he read himself...