Word: undercutting
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...about his signature, reinventing government. D'oh! I think Gore's too freaked by the gun owners in the battleground states to get tough on this. It's a mistake. For whatever gun owners he might offend - and I don't think it would be that many - he'd undercut Bush on "compassion" and look tougher. This was a big omission for Gore...
...team, we have nothing but the utmost respect for Williams. His no-nonsense attitude towards Everett's inappropriate behavior is an example of the correct belief that star players shouldn't receive any special treatment. In this light, it is unfortunate that Duquette choose to publically undercut William's judgement. In a sickeningly show of support for Everett at the expense of his manager, Duquette said "the bottom line is how you perform on the field." Duquette dismissed the rest as auxiliary issues...
...Think again. The International Olympic Committee, at the behest of its well-heeled television licensees (principally NBC), has barred all video footage of the Games from the Web. Why? NBC won't be broadcasting any events live from Sydney, and the network chieftains don't want to be undercut by enterprising Webmasters. Now if only they'd ban those annoying Olympic mascots...
...conceding Lieberman's strength, the Bush campaign undercut the message it had been sending for the past several weeks: that Gore is an unprincipled Clinton clone whose Veep pick will be just another example of low-road behavior. Bush's team said he wouldn't be calling a halt to his talk of "restoring honor and integrity" to the White House, but both his advisers and Republicans in Washington are worried that they have been robbed of one of their central themes. They concede that choosing Lieberman is the smartest thing Gore has done in this campaign, and what happened...
...which proposed the move in part to open the airwaves to more voices, hit back that the radio companies' concerns have more to do with worries about audience (and advertising) share than any technical issues. And while some conservative Republicans have expressed remorse that their position will undercut grassroots religious programming, the message in their perfunctory hand-wringing is abundantly clear: In this case, at least, the almighty dollar is gospel on Capitol Hill...