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...human being and a person." (With those words, he did.) Then Dick Cheney, who was President Bush's Defense Secretary and is candidate Bush's running mate, sidled up to the lectern in Philadelphia and said, "Mr. Gore will try to separate himself from his leader's shadow, but somehow we will never see one without thinking of the other." It was hard to see Cheney without thinking of a gray sheriff from some late-period Clint Eastwood western, riding out of retirement to drive off the rascals who'd plundered his town. With a soft voice and a rusty...
That was the story in public. In private, nothing much had changed. "My dad," George W. Bush once said, "plays a big role in my life as a shadow government." All through this campaign, the father has been in constant and close communication--"obsessed," Barbara admitted, e-mailing and making calls to his old state operatives and doing events with police officers. An old magician with a telephone, he worked the long lines behind the scenes, making suggestions about what a good idea it would be to do a national Hispanic event, helping with fund raising. You could hear...
...anticipates yet another new politics, born of a wide and deep disgruntlement with the status quo. Her evidence for the coming revolution is thin. The low voter turnouts she and her shadow conveners bewail as signs of disgust might just as plausibly be taken for the sleepy indifference of a fat and happy populace. But her larger charge--that the two parties, in thrall to a self-satisfied elite, have become homogeneous, to the detriment of a robust political debate--is far more plausible. Anyone who doubts it should be forced to explain the difference between George Bush's "compassionate...
...started this revolution is a beefy football jock who dropped out of college because he didn't think he was learning enough. Kirila grew up working the family farm in the shadow of the struggling steel mills of Pennsylvania's Shenango Valley, 60 miles north of Pittsburgh. He was as fascinated by manufacturing as some teenagers are by cars. In high school he was devising weight machines for his football teammates. An injury sidelined him in 1984, and he dropped out of Youngstown State University to get into the fitness-machine business. With a $500 deposit from a customer...
...spectacles, their prime-time coverage has actually declined. That's simply because the image-makers have systematically weeded out everything that might make them interesting as TV. Perhaps the conventions' best hope for clawing their way back to prime time may occur outside the halls - at the shadow events and street protests planned by elements ranging from major-party mavericks to Starbucks-trashing anarchists. At least those have the not-quite-scripted frisson of reality...