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...televised gala, the night before he was inaugurated in 1993, Barbra Streisand sang Evergreen, and Clinton couldn't resist mouthing the lyrics. And the cameras--as he knew they would--started drifting away from Streisand and found the President, tears streaming out of his eyes, mouthing the words, devouring the words as if they were made of chocolate. And I then knew that what we had here was the story of a stomach. The man is defined--was then, is now and has been all through the eight years--as the Great American Consumer. He'll eat anything. Hugs, scandal...
...Barbra Streisand and Rosie O'Donnell announce that if Bush takes office, they will move to another country. The Dow Jones average reacts by falling 780 points. Warren Christopher and James Baker set aside their differences and together urge Streisand and O'Donnell to reconsider, "for the good of the nation...
...certain point, the constitutional order of our republic must take precedence over the ambitions of a single man, however just his cause may be. Neither Gore nor Dubya, despite the plaints of Barbra Streisand and her ilk, poses a substantial threat to the survival of our nation. We have weathered the presidency of Franklin Pierce, Prohibition, bell-bottom jeans and the collected works of Barbara Kingsolver; we can stand four years with either of these lackluster eldest sons at the helm of our nation...
...through this clutter, campaigns relied heavily this year on prerecorded phone calls, including messages from celebrities like Norman Schwarzkopf and mother Barbara for Bush; and for Gore, Barbra Streisand, Stephen King and Ed Asner. The Democrats alone planned to make 40 million phone calls in the last 10 days of the campaign. (No word on how many smashed phones electronics stores have been asked to replace.) "Phone messages get more attention than other ads," says Jamieson. "If people agree with what they hear, they play it again and again for their friends." And you just know that folks like that...
...Heaven knows he tried. The Gore camp enlisted celebrities like Barbra Streisand and Stephen King to make phone calls and harnessed activist powerhouses like the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League and the NAACP. The vice president trudged back and forth across the country entreating voters and making the case for informed, careful leadership. But he just couldn't find his voice, or a trace of momentum...