Word: cheneys
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Last night in Danville, Ky., former Secretary of Defense Richard D. Cheney and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) sat at a table with Bernard Shaw and provided a comprehensive overview of the campaign issues. The format--the same that will be used for the presidential debate Tuesday--was a chance for the candidates to explain their tickets' positions without resorting to partisan attacks...
Though the result was generally dull and rehashed many of the issues from Tuesday's presidential debate, a few exchanges provided new positions, specifically those on racial profiling and questions of gay marriage. In particular, Cheney's remarks about civil unions for gays--in which he suggested that the issue should be left up to individual states--is a welcome step forward from the traditional Republican stance that refuses to accommodate, in any form, such civil unions...
...solid support for their candidate and his positions. The amount of new material covered was minimal--but this was the fault of Bernard Shaw, who did not take advantage of the opportunity to grill the vice-presidential candidates on issues specific to them, like Lieberman's Senate race and Cheney's ties to the American oil industry. Many of the questions were similar to the ones asked on Tuesday, some eliciting the same word-for-word responses...
...that Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman, at a table on stage at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, left the traditional running-mate chores undone. They were surrogates for their candidates, and astonishingly effective ones. After all of Tuesday's itchy-fingered sloganeering, these two were almost translators, calmly and precisely explaining what their bosses had meant the other day. It was the traditional debate attitude that was missing - the grandstanding, the posturing, the darting search for that "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" moment. In other words, these politicians were a couple of class acts...
...this debate was the surplus and how to spend it - with so many policy roads leading back to it, both campaigns seem content to focus voter attention on this choice. Thursday was the annotated version. Though the totings-up of the two sides seem destined never to jibe, Cheney and Lieberman poked at each other's math dutifully but briefly. Never mind the numbers. It's a philosophical choice, best outlined in a calm, intelligent discussion. Both men, especially Cheney, showed a talent for that that their supposed better halves should envy...