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...What Dubya remark prompted Dick Cheney to say "Big time...
...remark was both funny and not made entirely in jest. Vidal is anything but a gadfly in his preoccupation with U.S. public affairs. He brings to the topic a mixture of nostalgia and estrangement. He inherited strong political yearnings; he idolized his blind maternal grandfather, Senator Thomas P. Gore, a populist Democrat from Oklahoma (who makes a cameo appearance in "The Golden Age"). But the young Vidal's firsthand glimpses of power as he accompanied his grandfather around Washington were eventually succeeded by the realization that he lacked the temperament to achieve such power himself. That is why his sympathy...
...same Bush who helped persuade his father to label Michael Dukakis a "bozo" in 1988. Yet he acted hurt again last week after Gore, chatting on Air Force Two, said Bush should "put up or shut up" on prescription-drug benefits. Bush ignored the substance of the remark, saying, "That doesn't sound very presidential to me." His communications director added that anyone who would make a "playground challenge" with "that kind of bitterness" shouldn't be President...
...quoted Fidel Castro's remark on the presidential candidates: "Never, in times so complex and chaotic as these, have we faced two contenders who are so boring and insipid" [VERBATIM, Aug. 21]. Methinks if George W. Bush is elected, Cuba's Mr. Big Man may be eating his words. Then it will be adios, Fidel! VEE LAPHAM Schaumburg...
...remark, to say the least, was an unfortunate, unscripted window into the personality of Candidate Bush - most damaging, perhaps, in that it suggests a tinge of anxiety. After all, whispering to a pal about "enemies" in the audience is the sort of thing a jumpy preppy might do moments before stepping up to the mike at a college debate. Governor Bush is at his most congenial when his ascension to power is assured, but the McCain challenge in the primaries showed that he's not exactly comfortable with spirited opposition. Politicians aren't expected to like journalists, but lashing...