Word: explainers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...almost an ache, not so much about anything specific as about everything in general. When the voters finally spoke last week, they all but said they want the national conversation to be civil and square, not empty or jaded, and they want a leader who will explain what he wants to do and level with them when he gets it wrong...
...members with glee, Bush was doing half the work with twice the effort. Maybe this wasn't exactly what he signed on for, when all those delegations were flying down to Austin and begging him to be the savior of the party. Now he had to do the begging, explain why someone who brags that he never wanted to be President actually deserves...
More recently, Gore's fudging is notable for being reflexive, subject to immediate refutation by checking his record, and gratuitous, since the truth would work as well. We all know he's pro-choice, but why did he insist he had always been so, rather than explain his moral struggle to get there? He conceded that he had voted to deny federal funds for abortions, but omitted that as a House member he was generally antiabortion, voting for a proposal that would have defined a fetus as a human life, which would have negated Roe v. Wade. As Vice President...
...clear --put an Indian in a movie and I guarantee it will be a blockbuster! M. Night Shyamalan did it with The Sixth Sense--in one totally irrelevant scene, two attractive Indians engage in a random argument over an engagement ring. But I assure you, those 30 seconds explain the movie's $250 million dollar gross. After all, every Indian in America went to see for themselves whether we had actually made it up on to the big screen. But truth be told, Indians will probably never stop being the lame-o sidekick or the inane comic relief (Apu, anyone...
...four police officers are scheduled to take the stand next week; each is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of reckless endangerment. Everything hinges on their testimony, says White. "The verdict will depend on the story they tell," he says. "They'll have to explain to the jury why they stopped Diallo, why they felt threatened, why they continued to shoot as much as they did, and whether they stopped when he was down. They're going to have to tell a tale the jury can hook on to." As they gear...