Word: though
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...first national TV exposure, even before Ed Sullivan. He was, as the obits reminded us, a renaissance man who played jazz piano, composed thousands of songs (but only one hit, "This Could Be the Start of Something Big"), wrote a couple of dozen books and even dabbled in politics. Though a lifelong liberal - a union man to the end, opponent of the death penalty and nuclear proliferation - in recent years he embarked on a vocal crusade to restore "family values" in television. This was a little uncomfortable for those of us who remember Allen as the irreverent kid who liked...
...plaintively shaking the lapels of everybody (make that anybody) who might conceivably pull a lever on Tuesday because he or she would miss having a Democrat in the White House. And that includes the folks who would be happy to vote for William Jefferson Clinton for a third term - though the vice president isn't saying that out loud...
...live in the greatest country on earth. Complaining about having a disproportionate voice in choosing the leader of the world's only superpower? Being feared and courted? Cry me a river, pal. You'll get your hemorrhoid-cream commercials back on "Hollywood Squares" soon enough. (Those automated phone calls, though, are indeed tools of the devil - but we'll get to that later...
...candidate over another. Look at the second "debate," which Bush and Gore spent agreeing with each other and which could only have fed the Ralph Nader/George Wallace belief that there ain't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties. The Bush and Gore attack ads, though, were short, sweet and to the point: Gore is a liar who favors Big Government; Bush is a fool who favors the rich. These may not have been the most ennobling messages, but it would be snobbish to call them irrelevant...
...election. Thursday night's news hit the Bush campaign on two vulnerable fronts. It reminded voters of how long it had taken Bush to mature, at a time when Al Gore has sought to raise doubts about the Republican's preparedness for the presidency. What was worse, though, was that the incident undermined one of the pillars of Bush's campaign: that he is trustworthy and that Gore, like Bill Clinton, is not. On issues ranging from taxes to Social Security, Bush has asserted, "I trust the people." Yet he did not trust them to understand and put in context...