Word: mating
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After Lieberman was tapped as Gore's running mate, he said a public prayer. The partisan audience seemed delighted. If the Republicans had chosen a vice-presidential candidate from, say, the religious right, and he immediately prayed in public, liberals would be outraged. Political correctness in America has fostered a tolerance for minority behavior that would not be condoned in the majority. DORIS O'BRIEN Vandenberg Village, Calif...
...right! Al Gore's pick of Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate is historic [CAMPAIGN 2000, Aug. 21]. This election will validate the maxim "regardless of race, color or creed." Never before have voters been given such power; the Gore-Lieberman ticket paves the way to electing, yes, an African American and, yes, a Hispanic to the highest political office. To minorities, I say, "Wake up. Your future is on the line." It's time. Electing them is just the beginning. LILLIAN KEFALOS Pittsburgh...
...selection of Lieberman, a devout Orthodox Jew, as Gore's running mate must scare poor Yasser Arafat to death. He may realize he had better strike a deal while Clinton is President because there may not be a better opportunity with Gore and Lieberman. Wouldn't it be ironic if the man who chastised Clinton for his sexual transgressions in the Oval Office became the catalyst for handing the President a much coveted alternative to his impeachment legacy as a Middle East peacemaker and possibly even a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize! RENO S. ZACK San Dimas, Calif...
...hole," was that George W. got caught doing publicly what he usually does privately. If you are the candidate of "raising the tone," it won't do to use epithets that can be printed only with dashes. If gravitas is the main quality you sought in a running mate, it doesn't do to have Dick Cheney, in an Ed McMahon moment, agreeing, "Oh, yeah, he is--big time." And if you need the press to confirm your image as a nice guy, it's bad to be seen singling out one of their membership for minor transgressions. Clymer wrote...
...Another carefully phrased reference, perhaps designed to mollify Midwestern readers: "In an aside to his running mate before a rally outside Naperville North High School, Bush used an expletive to refer to a newspaper reporter in the crowd. Former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney agreed, and both comments were picked up by a live microphone...