Word: cheneys
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Tuesday night's presidential debate George W. Bush succeeded in surpassing very low expectations. Tonight's vice presidential match-up provides his running mate, Dick Cheney, with a similarly underwhelming challenge: Showing America that he does, in fact, have a pulse...
...impassive Cheney, that task is complicated by his opponent?s strengths. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, who's perceived as an affable and talented wordsmith, has held elected office for the better part of three decades, and is well versed in debates. Cheney hasn?t faced an opponent's lectern in 12 years, when he last ran for Wyoming's sole seat in the House of Representatives...
...while Bush's spin team knew that carefully planted low expectations could only help their candidate Tuesday night, Cheney's handlers aren?t bothering to broadcast their apprehension. It's already out there...
...spinners' entrance, the press room was pretty quiet; attention to the debate simulcast was swayed periodically by the arrival of new propaganda from red-T-shirt clad Gore-Lieberman volunteers. These people are unbelievable; the copies were still warm as they piled up on our desk. The Bush-Cheney entourage were a bit slower on the uptake - it took them a good 45 minutes to get warmed up. But once they got started, they produced their "issue clarification" packets with startling speed, maneuvering around the press desks in their tailored suits and Ralph Lauren dress shirts...
...Gore-Lieberman counterattacks were labeled "Reality Check" and addressed every single issue raised in the debate, from Social Security (incidentally, could someone please teach these poor candidates to pronounce this phrase? Phonetically, now: It's so-shul, not sossal) to education reform to prescription benefits. Bush-Cheney called theirs "Setting the Record Straight," and pretty much stuck to the same laundry list of issues...