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...Somehow it came out that he'd recently called off a wedding that was to have been a half-million-dollar affair. When we asked who the bride was he wouldn't say - but he implied that she was the one with family money...
...Campaign finance reform is my favorite issue. If this former solicitor-in-chief can somehow convince me of his sincerity, that will go a long way. (Certainly there is no competition from Bush to be the president who gets McCain-Feingold through the McConnell roadblock.) Likewise the environment, where Gore's sincerity is unquestioned but his ability to effect real change is questionable. The corporation-bashing is a turn-off -this economy wouldn't have boomed much without big business - but then again, corporations are quite able to take care of themselves...
...speech at the end, in which he thanked his family (including his brother and his sister-in-law, who were in attendance) for taking the heat that went along with being associated with him these past four years. He said that even the bad days were great days, and somehow that was reassuring. For this was a Democratic contingent made richer during the booming prosperity of the Clinton era. They had enjoyed the eight-year intersection of Hollywood and politics. They seemed glad that it was good...
...Clinton fairly radiated the lightness of being: "See how mine enemies flee before my face." Everyone else who came to the platform seemed somehow smaller and dimmer. His own wife, though highly burnished, has settled into an unfortunate speaking style - hard, flat, dogmatic and haranguing, heavy with a metallic menace. She seems to have learned nothing from Bill about giving a speech...
...hastily called news conference outside Detroit, GM's pugnacious vice chairman Harry Pearce pronounced himself "annoyed, seriously annoyed" that archrival Ford was positioning itself as "somehow the environmental leader." The debate, he declared, ought to be "intellectually honest...GM leads Ford today in truck fuel economy, both on average and on a model-by-model basis, including SUVs. General Motors will still be the leader in five years, or 10 years, or for that matter 20 years. End of story...