Word: stumps
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...These were not innovations; the variety format was long established in radio, and hosts like Arthur Godfrey had successfully transplanted it to TV. But Allen tweaked it with an audience-participation routine before the first guest spot - he'd play Stump the Band, or sit at the piano and invent a song from words suggested by the audience. He did "remotes" from outside the theater: the Man on the Street interviews that later became treasured schtick with his own comedy troupe of Louis Nye ("Hi-ho, Steverino!"), Don Knotts ("No!"), Bill Dana ("My name, "Jose Jimenez"), Dayton Allen...
...doing so, a reminder that the veep has been part of the most unceasing period of prosperity in American history. Gore may be determinedly keeping Clinton at arm's length - and clearly expecting some integrity points for doing so - but in Little Rock on Tuesday the meat of his stump speech was the last eight years...
...even if the two candidates' foreign policy résumés seem not to matter on the stump, doesn't experience determine a president's success as commander in chief? Not necessarily. Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan were considered foreign policy neophytes before they took office, and both proved to be resolute world leaders. Even Bill Clinton - who in 1992 practically boasted about his lack of interest in international affairs - turned into an unapologetic globalist, visiting more countries than any other president in history...
...reasons why youth are not engaged in the political process is that they see the politicians as apathetic. When a politician gives a sterile speech about the importance of voting, I tend to tune out. I can be assured that the politician is giving a well-rehearsed stump speech that he gives to every student group he meets. Furthermore, a politician simply telling youth to vote is not going to make it happen...
...real populist, he'd be telling that one on the stump...