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...case, for good or ill, Clinton the candidate is closer to Clinton the private man than almost any other campaigner of recent memory. The image the Governor projects on the stump and on TV is emphatically not designed by handlers. Clinton himself, powerfully aided by his wife Hillary, is the source of the message and the big-picture strategy. He employs speechwriters but rewrites the speeches heavily. So much so that despite the best efforts of the original drafters to shorten his acceptance speech to the July convention, it still took 55 minutes to deliver. Main reason: Clinton kept rewording...
...Nightline that evening to defend the letter. But he insisted on going through with a rally at Elks Club Lodge No. 184 in Dover, New Hampshire, only three hours before his scheduled appearance. Many another politician would have canceled the appearance or mumbled through a standard stump speech. Clinton, his voice hoarse, told an audience of about 300 supporters that if they would stick with him through that trial, "I'll remember you until the last dog dies." It was a deeply emotional appeal that those present recall with awe, and an example of the sheer persistence and indomitable will...
...told his aides, but then faltered because he had not developed any plan to follow up on that success. In contrast, Clinton from the very first had poured money and organizational effort into Illinois. Later, against the advice of some aides, he found time on six critical days to stump in Michigan. If he could follow up a Southern sweep with big March victories in those important industrial states, he figured, he could sew up the nomination...
Watch these statesmen in motley, clowns on the stump, and Limbaugh's mud track can look like the high road. He meets his own challenge -- to inform and entertain -- and those who don't get it are always free to tune out. But even some righteous liberals are closet Rushophiles, because the man is so good at what he does. And knows it. And tells you, in a voice whose every syllable bespeaks a 25-year apprenticeship in radio oratory, without fear of repetition or contradiction. If vainglorious were two words, he'd fit both of them...
...spun out at every opportunity, whether in shorthand in St. Louis or in some greater detail on the stump, the differences between the candidates' economic views could not be greater. The two candidates' views regarding the recently negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement illustrate that gap. Both support NAFTA as vital for the nation's economic future, but Bush clearly believes that merely establishing a new North American trade zone is sufficient to spur economic growth. In the President's mind, free trade is an end in itself; once established, market forces will determine winners and losers on the merits...