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...Hawaii and John Kennedy won the recount. But little was at stake then, since Kennedy already had the Electoral College votes he needed. Presumably, the Republican-dominated House would be inclined to select Bush. The prospect of Congress selecting the next President is odd enough. Making it even more surreal: the presiding officer at such a proceeding would be Vice President Al Gore...
...down a father, any father. "I felt ashamed, really ashamed of all the years I'd spent trying to identify the father who happened to be mine, instead of simply claiming the best on offer," Ludo says. He pursues one extraordinary man after another, whose stories are told in surreal dreamlike interludes, like something out of Don Quixote or, of course, Kurosawa...
...State of the Union was surreal and intense, like nothing I ever experienced in the White House. The Lewinsky scandal had exploded about a week before, and to me that speech was a moment that crystallized so much about Clinton's presidency. Clinton had to try to govern through media clamor and partisan pressures that were almost unbearable, yet at the same time, he was able to seize the policy high ground...
...years, the rest of America has been entertained from a safe distance by Florida's headlines, but our endemic weirdness can no longer be regarded as amusing local color. The very fate of the American presidency now rests in its slimy, surreal grip. As a native Floridian, I advise you to brace yourselves. Given our recent history, more bizarre twists are to be expected...
Today a nation stands transfixed as once again two presidential candidates representing Harvard and Yale square off. The parallels and improbabilities seem surreal. One can only hope that one day, when we look back at this moment in history, we will feel something approximating the sense of wonder that surrounds the memory of that great contest...