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...Like this one from Gore: "I never exaggerate - just ask my wife Tipper or any of our 11 children...
...question about morality exposed weaknesses in both candidates. Gore talked about Tipper's mid-'80s reaction to "some awful lyrics" on a rock record that daughter Karenna brought home. "Tipper hit the ceiling," claimed Gore. The Truster responded by hitting the "False Statement" button. Maybe it was judging him literally. Maybe Tipper didn't quite touch the beams of the living room. It seems to operate on a brutal standard of truth. Perhaps it depends on the meaning of "ceiling...
...given to any Gore exaggeration. Going in, he had been warned by the press that he had used up his lifetime allowance of melodrama with his sister's deathbed story, with his claim to being the model for Love Story (he was in part, the author confirmed, but Tipper wasn't) and with his boast that he took "the initiative in creating the Internet" (although even Newt Gingrich says Gore did so in the Congress). Gore is assumed to be exaggerating even when he's not. We're hypersensitive to the flaw, having just finished seven years with his boss...
...Gore's fibs, which have to do with his life, should matter less to voters than Bush's fibs, which have to do with our lives. At the end of the debate, Gore was showered with affection from his kids and Tipper, which can't be conjured up for the cameras. His utter inability to extend that emotion outward leads him to make up stories, which he then tells in slow motion, to seem more real. In the process, he ends up seeming less so. It's not sincerity he lacks, it's the insincerity to fake sincerity...
...ROUND 5: Gore did OK on the campaign finance question and the one about kids being exposed to sex and violence. (Why didn't W. praise Tipper? It woulda been a home run and preempted Al.) His praise of McCain was a good riff. And so was Bush's riff about more civility on Washington. The ideal candidate would have found a way to fuse both messages...