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...minutes in the spotlight: the Clinton family on Monday, the Kennedy family on Tuesday and then, the next night, a picket line: speakers from the teachers union, the AFL-CIO and the N.A.A.C.P. Four years ago, Bill Clinton won a landslide by serenading independent voters with themes like welfare reform, crime fighting, deficit reduction. Last week Gore sang that refrain too, but you had to listen carefully...
...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 ingredients like welfare reform, disciplined government, crime, free trade and values...
...seeing the kind, kids-minded, lure-the-soccer-moms Bush here, backed with multicultural, homey images: Kids run down a school hallway, a child reads in a porch swing. "The Bush education agenda," says a warm female voiceover. "Reform Head Start. Focus on reading. Restore local control. Triple funding for character education." Triple what for what? In a Bush administration, will we be giving classes in not having affairs with interns half your...
...change what was wrong in America, he had to fight for what was right... He made the environment his cause. Broke with his own party to support the Gulf War." (Suddenly it's 1991. Al Gore never ran a failed campaign for president in 1988, understand?) "Fought to reform welfare with work requirements and time limits." (And he was never vice president. He was never, ever in an administration with Bill Clinton. Capice...
...Where does this leave Gore? Last week the "own man" veep stuck out his chin on campaign finance reform and placed a big bet with independents that some sort of association with McCain's magic name will overcome Gore's own reputation for unrelenting greed in the pursuit of election funds. Republicans call that hypocrisy; Gore will try to sell it as part of his substance-over-style package: Never mind the past, here's what I'm going...