Word: problems
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...time I did my part for democracy. I knew it was time because I was stuck at the Republican Convention and people kept talking about doing stuff for democracy, and I'm a bit of a joiner. The problem is, I had no idea what to do. Then I heard American Samoa give the lamest preamble to casting its votes, listing the most generic virtues of its home whatever-you-call-that-nonstate-thing-they-are. I realized my country was calling me to punch up the 30 seconds when the states plug themselves. It seemed easier than voting...
...other white males. The latest TIME/CNN poll registers a 25 percent deficit for Al Gore among among men. The poll shows Bush with 57 percent of the male vote, and Gore with only 32 percent. Among women, Bush gets 48 percent and Gore 44 percent. Specifically, Gore's biggest problem is white men. He has the black vote pretty much sewn...
...problem, of course, is that plenty of reasonable people do just that. Gore is stuck with the mantle of the vice presidency, and if he wants to crow about all the things that went right for the country in the last eight years, he's going to have to pay homage to the things that didn't. It's a risky calculation, of course, and its success is dependent on a forgiving electorate. Happily for Gore, while Clinton's personal approval ratings have never recovered from the Lewinsky affair, the President maintains extremely strong job approval scores. And that dichotomy...
...others who are Gore's problem. Why? He seems to them too much a pleaser and a chameleon. (Women may share this opinion, but I'm talking about the men). These men see uncertainty of self, cunning changeability, opportunism. They see energies of desperation in him, and at the bottom, somewhere, a kind of fear... but of what? Inadequacy? Failure? The men who are Gore's problem do not, in any case, believe that he adds up to a trustworthy human being. They look into his character and see a house of cards...
...probably the last thing anyone in Washington is thinking about during this election season, and that may be making life easier for Saddam Hussein. The U.S. and British air raids on the southern Iraqi city of Samawa over the weekend, which Iraq alleges struck civilian targets, highlight the problem posed by Washington's strategy - or, perhaps, the absence of a strategy. Besides maintaining U.N. sanctions in the face of growing concern in the Gulf War alliance that these have no positive effect, the U.S. and Britain remain militarily engaged against Iraq by policing the "no-fly" zones they have declared...