Word: regularness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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That's a stretch. The Vice President is many things, but easy-going is not one of them. He is extraordinarily intense. If Americans decide they want a regular guy in the White House, they'll elect George W. Bush, who is also tightly wound but does a much better job of hiding it. The parade of Gore relatives was exhausting and a little pointless (news flash: Gore's brother-in-law thinks he's great). But from time to time, the real Gore did come through. During All Things Al, some of the speakers were arrayed...
...roasting it in the fireplace. At this convention, Gore's image was the thing being cooked inside the shiny wrapper. And the message? As his old friend Bob Delabar put it Thursday night during a podium discussion of All Things Al, Gore "always seemed to me to be a regular and easygoing fellow...
Have I mentioned that Gore is a fighter for working families? The convention did, endlessly, because Gore wants to make a virtue out of his aggression. It worked, as the Regular Guy offensive generally did when it highlighted things about him that are already familiar. The biographical film narrated by Tipper Gore was effective because it showed Gore as a loving family man, and he is that. Best of all, it was a chance to show off photos of Al and Tipper as young marrieds in the 1970s--a scruffy hunk and his blond babe. As a 30-year...
...come. Last week British Airways and Air France, the only two airlines that operate the 12 remaining supersonic Concordes, were forced by British and French regulators to ground their planes. And given the expensive measures likely to be required to prove its flightworthiness, the plane may never fly in regular service again...
...This was in Los Angeles, on the last night of the Democratic convention, and I was getting ready to travel on Gore's four-day "Charting America's Course" riverboat excursion. I was filling in for Karen Tumulty, our regular correspondent assigned to Gore. I'm a rookie when it comes to this stuff, so Karen left a message for me on the cell phone of Gore campaign spokesman Chris Lehane. You're all set, she tells me, and I sprint for the press charter flight out of LAX to La Crosse...