Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Through a week of melting hopes, Gore was a block of ice. "I'm not going to speculate on what the outcome might be," Gore said on Tuesday, though people thought they already knew it. He watched every argument, tracked every brief, read all the Florida papers and phoned the editors, pressing his case. All around him, Democrats were growing resigned; even close aides "just want it to be over," said one, and their verbs began to shift to the past tense. One reason his speechwriter had not drafted a concession speech was his own superstition that...
...Gore had been in the lead, [William] Rehnquist, [Antonin] Scalia and [Clarence] Thomas would have come up on the other side of the equal protection argument," he said...
...debate the election of 2000 either way. Recreational argument is aerobic, good for the heart and lungs. But I am going to try not to argue this election at all, at least for awhile...
...thing, the country is as sick of the subject as a mother who has delivered after a fourteen-month pregnancy. For another, the argument always ruins the evening. This election has fermented into a sort of darkening inebriant that makes people ugly. I find myself going on a toxic tear and firing off lines of crackpot dudgeon - pure postelectoral rant...
...thoroughly specious legal reasoning - so specious that it has led some to declare the decision political in nature. The Supreme Court should never have opened itself up to such accusations; if the majority wanted to guarantee the end of the Florida recount, they ought to have structured their argument around a convincing legal precedent - rather than depending on such a transparent and frail political maneuver and then trying to disguise it as a matter...