Word: tippers
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...like a good guy to tell such a lame joke with such obvious delight. Rubber-faced, slow-talking, yet irrepressibly exuberant, Lieberman at his introduction in Nashville, Tenn., was already rubbing off on the usually constrained Gore, who nearly scampered about the stage retrieving a camera left there by Tipper and handing Lieberman a handkerchief to wipe his sweating face. (Memo to Gore fashion consultant: Lieberman's white shirt stayed dry because he wore an undershirt...
...stage. On Wednesday she will give the speech kicking off the roll-call vote that will formally nominate her father. The gauzy biographical film touting Gore as the man from Carthage will be vetted by her; her pen will edit the remarks of both the Vice President and Tipper Gore. And when Senator Joseph Lieberman, Gore's running mate, shows up to take his place, you can be certain that she weighed in on the decision to put him there...
...with all their rock'n'roll clichés. Discovering true, lifelong love to the plangent sound of guitars, he in his dark feathered hair, she in her blond feathered hair. She standing behind him, always with her camera. Could it be? Were they telling us that Tipper was Linda Eastman? And Al Gore... Paul McCartney...
...Band on the Run" was maybe a little much to wish for: After the credits rolled, there was our old Al, lurching up the aisle, reaching out to slap hands while oddly keeping his trunk almost entirely still. And yet there was a moment: hitting the podium, he and Tipper lip-locked in the most passionate kiss I've seen in American politics, a faces-moving kiss, a full-body-contact kiss, a Parental Advisory Label, get-a-room kiss that may well have involved tongue. Coming from a man who doesn't seem to clear his throat in public...
...Whatever else they feel about the man, viewers must have left believing that Al and Tipper Gore really do love each other intensely. Will they, like the millions who spent their girlhoods dreaming of swiping Paul from Linda, decide that any man who's good enough for her is good enough for them? Or will they decide to give this sweet couple some quiet time alone together at last? After all the gushy convention tributes we've seen, you'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs. This November, Al Gore will look around...