Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...simply did not make the consistent effort or advance the needed strategies and goals that would do something fundamentally about the state of public education in this country. In health care, he tried in 1993, then backed away from it quickly and unduly. It's a failure of moral conviction; a failure of imaginative, creative thinking about what has to be done, tested by moral values...
...lasting legacy is his contribution to the cultural discussion on leadership, and I think it's been a negative one. First, he and the White House tried to drive a wedge between personal behavior and public policy, which I think is a fundamental moral and political mistake. It didn't fly, but it damaged the national fabric, and I think it did hurt our kids. Second, he represents the triumph of style over substance, of celebrity over leadership, of success over character...
...happen to poor kids under his bill. If you had a President who just didn't get it, that's one thing. But his willingness to sign a welfare bill that he knew was high-stakes gambling with the lives and futures of our poorest children showed that the moral compass wasn't there. And that's linked to the other defining moment, dragging us through Monica, which also happened because the moral compass wasn't there. The problem was not having an affair. From a religious point of view, people make mistakes. Jesus was very forgiving of people...
...simpler reform that would ensure the popular-vote winner a majority in the Electoral College: award a bonus of 102 electoral votes, two for each state and for the District of Columbia, to the winner of the popular vote. Under this reform, there would remain a temptation to bring moral pressure on individual electors to reject the decisions of their states and shift their votes to the popular-vote winners. This invokes the myth that the Founding Fathers expected the electors to be free agents. The evidence is that the Founders fully expected the Electoral College to execute the popular...
After 18 months and more than a billion dollars, the 2000 presidential election looked as if it might be decided by one five-thousandth of 1% of the vote. Gore seemed to have won a moral victory, but he might not have won an actual one. His 222,880-vote lead in the popular tally was the fuel for his campaign's demand for a manual recount in some Florida counties, for time to register the outcome of the absentee ballots there, and for the nation to show some patience. And so the end of one campaign marked the beginning...