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...Bush implied that Gore is a politician who can not be trusted, Gore grilled Bush on his large tax cut proposal and his refusal to put Medicare in a "lockbox," and challenged him to support the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill...
...formidable debater, a policy wonk able to continuously spout off issue-related facts and figures, Gore indeed came off as a career politician...
...Running for the presidency is the hardest thing any politician will ever have to do," Dukakis said. "You are totally walled off. It's a surreal world that...
...downplays the intensity of his own preparation, telling reporters, "We'll just squeeze in a little time here and there. Probably a day or two before the first debate, I'll take more time off to get ready." But such insouciance is hard to believe in a politician so meticulous that he demanded the practice room for his 1996 debate with Jack Kemp be cooled to the temperature of the hall and told aides to be sure to calculate for the warming effect of the audience...
...think of Pierre Trudeau as the first big-time postmodern politician. He loved to repudiate conventional partisan ideologies, and if in the end that served his partisan goals, well, there would be just the little Gallic upturn at the corners of his mouth. He had a near-perfect understanding of the possible uses of celebrity. With a little jacknife off the low board here if a photographer was positioned right, a lively judo tussle there (again, photographers were present), a rose in his buttonhole, a pretty woman on his arm, he knifed through dowdy Canadian politics like the classy skier...