Word: trails
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...quiet support from the Saudis," says a source close to the talks. A few days later the President dispatched Richardson to Los Angeles to brief Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister. It couldn't have been a surprise to Clinton when Gore called him from the campaign trail last Tuesday and said he was going to come out in favor of an SPR release. Clinton was happy to let Gore propose the idea first so the Vice President could get a tactical boost just as Bush seemed to be regaining his balance...
...more likely to catch Dick Cheney on the campaign trail if you're a seven-year-old. The man likes a school and listening to his wife, Lynne, read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar": a captive audience under adult supervision, and no rope line. Cheney's staff quickly penciled in a school last week when they realized they would be in Pennsylvania for two days doing nothing but fund-raisers. They cobbled together an event at Academy Park High School in Sharon Hill, Pa., which the principal didn't learn about until 3 p.m. the day before. The gym was only...
...member of the Democratic ticket spoke so openly about the role of religion in public life, and many people are surprised. Groups that usually reserve criticism for conservative Republicans, such as the Anti-Defamation League, have asked Lieberman to stop speaking so overtly about his faith on the campaign trail...
Which brings up the second, and much less common, reason that a politician would speak about religion on the campaign trail. When people run for as high an office as the presidency (or the vice-presidency), it is their duty to present themselves to the American people in an honest and straightforward manner. People expect them to speak forthrightly about their vision for America, the policies they hope to implement, their personality, their ideals and their beliefs...
...that anyone who isn't religious can be just as moral as anyone who is, as long as he does not try to force his religion onto others, and as long as he does not prostitute his faith for votes, I'll feel comfortable watching him on the campaign trail...