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However, the deal should not be seen as a cure-all. It covers only television and radio advertising expenditures, not other campaign expenses such as get-out-the-vote efforts. Although the latter may seem a nobler cause, the need to solicit funds would be no less corrupting. The enforcement provisions are incomplete: Once one campaign violates the deal, the other would be allowed to respond "proportionately," a phrase that seems likely to send the campaigns careening into a spiral of escalating counter-spending and accusations...
...Aborigines - a deserved and, in liberal opinion, an essential gesture of goodwill - by saying all this happened in their grandfathers' time, and the living bear no responsibilities for it. This is Prime Minister Howard's view too, although - significantly enough - he is quick to drape himself in the nobler emblems of Australian history with which his generation had nothing to do, such as the heroism of the soldiers at Gallipoli...
Still, the volunteers themselves seem shy about admitting to the nobler purpose. After a December debate in Manchester, one youthful Forbes supporter with spiked hair avowed, "I'm here for the free ride...
...more money in the bank than Gore, the Vice President wants weekly debates to "elevate our democracy." Even Gore's advisers admit the ploy. "Sure it's tactical," says one, "but it's also good for the country." The danger for Bradley is that his countertactics look no nobler than Gore's tactics. If Bradley really wants to improve the process, why not just say yes to Gore? Certainly Gore watchers would enjoy seeing a less rehearsed Vice President; in 1996 he was so obsessed with debate prep that he made sure the temperature in his practice room matched...
...have found nobler passions, by all means pursue them earnestly. We're all dying to be taken seriously, and it helps, of course, to have a cause, whether a living wage nocturnal reclamation or grapes. But the immediate need to feel big aside, the sincerest pose for many may be one of navel-gazing or just getting...