Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...believe me? Ask the candidates. Both of them explicitly referred to their own debate strategy during the debate, using the language of political commentators to point out the blueprints of their performance even as they gave them. Bush, voicing his distrust of big government, said that was "one of the themes you'll hear tonight." Al Gore repeatedly pointed out "there's a contrast [between us]," as if to say, "See? I'm drawing concrete distinctions, just like you all said I should after Round 2." It was a truly media-age moment: two presidential candidates punditizing themselves on stage...
...even the most uncommitted of uncommitteds should probably know by now what their choices...
...Gore, meanwhile, is the comprehensive policy package for the job. Was that enough Tuesday to take the momentum back in a race that is statistically even but slightly Bush's, at least for now? That four-point lead Bush took to St. Louis had to be taken back, and Gore knew it. He came out in full-on people mode, tossing the audience a "how are you all" on the way in and breaking the don't-ask-the-questioner-questions-rule with a Clintonesque "what grade do you teach?" (He actually defused the breach rather charmingly, reading...
...brief - Gore's sounded like an Oscar speech), settled down. He boiled down the tax cut/estate tax question resoundingly ("It's a fairness issue. It's an issue of principle, not politics") and delivered suitably grave response to the death penalty question that Gore, surprisingly, left unchallenged. He even had a line for campaign finance reform and citizen disillusionment: "We need somebody in office who will tell the truth. It's the best way to get people back into the system...
...Even if Arafat is able to rein in the militants over the next day or two, the cease-fire - like the peace process it's supposed to save - is inherently vulnerable to sabotage by the hard-liners on both sides who oppose it. A terrorist bombing or even a dramatic shooting by Hamas or other hard-liners would force Prime Minister Barak, in deep political peril at home, to respond harshly, which would in turn prompt the Palestinian leadership to respond in kind. And another stroll around the Temple Mount by Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon or even more shootings...