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...Tuesday's Stump Stops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics Junkie: Back on the Back Burner | 8/22/2000 | See Source »

...issues is "like saying that the veterinarian and the taxidermist are in the same business because either way, you get your dog back." That's a line Gore uses regularly, yet he seemed to be hearing it for the first time--a real breakthrough, since his smiles on the stump so often feel digitized. All week long he appeared looser, happier and thus more plausible as both candidate and potential President. And Lieberman--in the same way that Cheney with his coolly effective convention speech surprised people who took him for a tree stump--displayed an unexpected knack for campaigning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Convention: Gore's Leap Of Faith | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...moral fervor. (Gore, said Lieberman, "has never wavered...as a servant of God Almighty.") But the Gore campaign knows it's all too easy to overplay the religion thing, which is why Lieberman dialed back the devotion later in the week--no prayers or invocations of God on the stump, just some remarks about Gore's "courage" that didn't explain what he'd been courageous about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democratic Convention: Gore's Leap Of Faith | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

...longer completely understand must be similar to my aunt in Oklahoma trying to keep up with Miller on his HBO show. I can just hear her asking, "Who's this Lina Wertmuller, dear?" Because part of the joy of listening to motormouth Miller is that occasionally he'll stump you, but in the most respectful way. Rather than talk down to his audience, he simply assumes they get him, or at the very least that they know how to use the Biographical Entries section of the dictionary. Which is why he'd be the perfect keynote speaker at a convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football the Way It Ought to Be | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

...candidate, talks that way anymore because this is a time of self-protective thinking. Candidates play defensive baseball to avoid errors, which is the surest way to make them. It is regarded as unsophisticated to discuss the fundamental nature of the country--either demonstrated or wished for--so stump speeches consist of exquisitely balanced references to particular problems. Centrist politics leads to guarded expression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Me a Corny Speech. Then I'll Listen | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

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