Word: veep
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...Where does this leave Gore? Last week the "own man" veep stuck out his chin on campaign finance reform and placed a big bet with independents that some sort of association with McCain's magic name will overcome Gore's own reputation for unrelenting greed in the pursuit of election funds. Republicans call that hypocrisy; Gore will try to sell it as part of his substance-over-style package: Never mind the past, here's what I'm going...
...saved! Word comes that Brian Reich, the campaign's briefing guy, nicknamed Mouse after the can-do character in "The Matrix" - which, incidentally, is one of the veep's all-time favorite movies - is in the media filing area with the laptop. He's ready to send, if I can just get over there and give him my editor's e-mail address...
...Here are Some Fun Al Gore E-Mailing Facts: The veep types his own e-mail, and is a touch-typist. ("Remember, he's a former reporter," one staffer reminds me, which in fact did nothing to reassure me at the time. I've been in newsrooms. I've seen journalists both hunting and pecking.) He "banged it out" sitting atop the Mark Twain riverboat on a gray and sultry Monday afternoon after a morning in which he was up before dawn to appear on seemingly every network morning show. He followed that with a lengthy chat with the reporters...
...crook" ironic memory of this campaign. "As the raindrops began to fall, he issued a challenge: 'If you don't want to hear specifics, now is your time to leave. Do you want to hear some specifics?'" Cut to helicopter, taking off without veep... USAT's AP finds Nader trying to dodge Gore triangulation: "'He's trying to make a passing grade in Populist 101.'" WSJ does another river moment: "'I'm giving you specifics before the election because I'm not afraid for you to know the facts,' the presidential nominee cried out. 'Do you want specifics?'... 'Yea,' replied...
While Israel was gleeful over the veep selection of Senator JOSEPH LIEBERMAN--"a very Jewish Jew," as one Israeli diplomat noted--the Senator and the Israeli government don't always walk in lockstep. Lieberman opposes the U.S. release of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, and he signed a letter to Barak protesting Israel's plans to sell China a sophisticated early-warning aircraft. He also visits Arab countries on Middle East trips. In 1991 he spent a week in Riyadh, where the Saudi royal family fixed kosher meals...