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...question and figure out which answer to use. He thinks while he talks, too - when a specific question was asked, Gore would reel off the platform line for a while before risking a direct response, if he risked one at all. He has a nervous sort of snort-laugh that pops out at inappropriate times, and he apparently thinks "y'understand what'm sayin'?" is what all the kids are sayin' these days...
Consider leadership, the most essential quality for a President. In the early '90s, with time off (for him) to run for President, Buchanan and I were co-hosts of the CNN program Crossfire. A mentally handicapped friend of mine was a big fan of the show. (Don't snort. O.K., go ahead and snort.) My friend can't begin to comprehend a talk-show discussion, but his lack of comprehension allows him to see the underlying social dynamic more clearly than those of us whose vision is fogged by understanding. He said to me once, "Mike, is that...
...Which may be why some in Gore's camp are posing like matadors, waving their red capes in hopes of provoking the other side to snort and charge. "If you are five points down with five weeks to go, you have to be aggressive," says one, sounding more hopeful than anxious. But Bush is more likely to try a balanced approach, playing the optimistic, sunny candidate who played to such raves on "Regis" and "Oprah" this week while also working hard to raise doubts about Gore's credibility. Last week, under the cover of a heralded shift to policy, Bush...
...course, the Democrat who made that crack in the first paragraph will snort at the idea of George W. Bush--scion of old Wasps, Galahad of tort reform, living fat on Texas oil money and "presiding" over lethal injections--as a hero of the anti-elitist masses. But that will be the Democrat's mistake...
...course, the Democrat who made that crack in the first paragraph will snort at the idea of George W. Bush - scion of old WASPs, Galahad of tort reform, living fat on Texas oil money and "presiding" now and then over lethal injections - as a hero of the anti-elitist masses. But that will be the Democrat's mistake...