Word: statesmanship
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...this election, Kerry said, partisanship has replaced statesmanship...
...rich that Daley's son, Gore campaign manager Bill Daley, should now stand before the cameras decrying an unfair election outcome. Richer still that Gore should now be counseled to take a lesson in statesmanship from Richard Nixon, who conceded the 1960 election rather than go to court and inflict incalculable damage on the stability and legitimacy of our presidential system...
...then he topped it all off with a bit of out-of-the-box statesmanship offer: A peace summit, so that both candidates might "improve the tone of our dialogue in America...
...pretty well. After an awkward opening thank-you to his supporters (not the stuff of statesmanship; Gore's boilerplate about a "test of our democracy" was much more above the fray), Bush settled in and got to work on why no further counting was needed...
...then Gore hit his silent rival with the statesmanship sucker punch. "Now, second, I propose that Governor Bush and I meet personally, one-on-one, as soon as possible, before the vote count is finished, not to negotiate, but to improve the tone of our dialogue in America." Not only before the outcome, but afterward too, wherever Bush wants, so that the pair can "unite the country behind the winner as soon as this process is completed." Get it? Unite, not divide? Fade out: They walk arm in arm into the sunset...