-Caveat Lector-
[Yeah, Rieeght. The day this happens is the day I walk on the
moon in my underware. A good lip reader and good-bye
Presidential complicity in illegality and conspiracy. This guy
just won't quit bullshitting. However, as bad as he is, ain't no
body as evil as a Bush. --MS]
New York Times-October 19, 2000
The Popular Pariah
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON -- Al Gore has said he would consider putting a
24-hour-a-day Webcam, or Alcam, in the Oval Office.
Tipper, of course, immediately intimated to friends, with her
sly, our- love-life-is-groovy smile, that there would be times
when that Webcam would have to be turned off.
But this just proves you can never get a Webcam where you want
one.
I have zero desire to see President Gore round the clock, putting
comely interns to sleep with charts and lectures on gaseous
reduction.
On the other hand, I would have loved to have a Webcam trained on
Bill Clinton during the debates.
I wonder if the president, who is a pariah in his own vice
president's campaign, chewed on his cigar and shouted comebacks
at the screen as the Three Faces of Al flickered.
What an exquisite dilemma for a man who always wants things both
ways! He needs his partner to excel so that Al can defeat W. and
secure Mr. Clinton's legacy. But if Mr. Gore falls short, Mr.
Clinton can comfort himself with the belief that "if only I were
out there, the election would be over. I'm still the best. If you
find a turtle on a fencepost, it didn't get there by accident."
Mr. Clinton, some close to him say, is bewildered and hurt by the
way Mr. Gore keeps erasing him from his White House photo album.
The president thinks Mr. Gore should run as his vice president,
bragging on their record of economic growth, welfare reform and
fiscal (if not personal) discipline.
I would much rather have the master pol's debate commentary than
those "doofus-heavy focus groups assembled by the networks," as
The Washington Post's TV critic Tom Shales calls them, which
deemed the governor more specific and straightforward than the
vice president even when W. was offering generic and incoherent
bromides.
As W. bit the inside of his lip and looked hunched, vacant and
played- out, you just had an image of a head full of sawdust as
he sniffled, snorted and sifted through his brain trying to
remember if the situation called for "I trust people, not
government" or "Leave no child behind" or "The partisan bickering
has to stop" or "Governors lead. That's what we do."
In a 1996 debate with Bob Dole, Mr. Clinton used sidling and
staring to intimidate his rival. Mr. Gore attempted the same
maneuver Tuesday. Lithe as a lawn mower, subtle as a subpoena,
Alpha Al clomped right up beside Mr. Bush, who rewarded him with
a disdainful double take that brought chuckles from the crowd.
Mr. Gore kept right on striding up to the crowd, like an Olympic
diver about to do a three-and-a-half- somersault pike.
Mr. Gore's points often had a subtext of tattling. He said his
four children had come to the debate. (W.'s didn't, nyah, nyah!)
He said he had gone to Vietnam, even though there were "fancy
ways to get out of going." (W. got a cushy spot in the Texas Air
National Guard, nyah, nyah!) He had "not spent the last
quarter-century in pursuit of personal wealth." (W. was using
family connections to get rich, nyah, nyah!)
Mr. Gore's erratic and sometimes arrogant debate demeanor, which
has caused some Gore focus groups to violently turn on the
Democratic nominee, has surely confirmed Mr. Clinton's belief,
which he once confided to a friend, that Al would have been
happier in academia.
After being slighted by the Gorites, the president would
certainly be gratified to see them come beg him for an 11th-hour
rescue — to do last- minute stumping with minorities and in
hard-fought states.
But Mr. Gore, who has not appeared publicly with the president
since their awkward passing of the torch in Monroe, Mich., two
months ago, resents Mr. Clinton so much he might rather lose than
reattach himself. He has paid all the dues he intends to. He
frets over polls that show lingering anger at Mr. Clinton that
might drag him down.
Mr. Gore cannot even bring himself to use the word "Clinton." In
the debate, he was boasting of his role in planning "the
president's" summit meeting in the Mideast. He caught himself
using the "P" word and you could practically hear the klaxon go
off as he switched to praising the great job of "our country's
team."
Can you imagine what the puffy- eyed Mr. Clinton, back (via a
fund- raiser and a golf banquet) from 20 meetings that consumed
24 of 28 hours at an Egyptian golf resort where he did not even
get to golf, must have howled at the TV at that point?
"Our TEAM? Oh, man, that is wrooong."
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