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Posted on 05/25/2006 7:29:36 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Washington diary: Too close to Bill? By Matt Frei BBC News, Washington
Pity those living in the shadow of Bill Clinton!
It has taken one former partner six years to find a natural voice and excavate a sense of humour lurking under layers of insecurity starched with campaign caution.
Today the body language looks less robotic and the passionate kisses less stagey.
The comparisons with Bill are no longer immediate and damning.
I am talking about Al Gore, of course.
Remember him? Al Gore, the former vice president, who now describes himself with a chuckle as "the man who used to be the next president of the United States".
This is a man who laboured first under his father's feverish ambition to plant a son in the White House and then under his boss's sneaky desire to see someone else planted there.
(The author Gore Vidal once told me that young Al was a very talented painter who was denied his calling by a senatorial father who insisted on a career in politics).
Free at last
But six years after winning the popular vote and losing the White House, Al Gore has been liberated by failure.
He spent years brooding in his own white house in Tennessee.
He put on weight and lost it.
At one stage he even grew a beard, prompting rumours of an imminent decline.
But the beard has gone and Al Gore has not become a hermit in a cave.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
"Foppish" and "rakish" are not exactly the words I'd pick to describe the Human Stick. This young pup from Beeb is just entertaining himself with how clever he can be...
No, more like hopelessly devoid of a brain - clinging to this one last vestige of politically correctism – he really should be locked up before he hurts himself or someone else…………………….
Al Gore of today is Al Gore of yesterday but with bleary eyes. He's never seen a tax he wouldn't hike, never saw an enemy he wouldn't surrender to, and never put the American people first during the Y2000 Presidential election.
And he is running again.
"The author Gore Vidal once told me that young Al was a very talented painter who was denied his calling by a senatorial father who insisted on a career in politics."
Remind anyone of somebody? Ouch.
Algore, the Dan Quale of the democrat party?
Nahhh, Dan Quayle is a lot more intelligent.
Wouldn't care for either to be pres though.
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And my parents made me do that fence, myself.
Al Gore, the former vice president, who now describes himself with a chuckle as "the man who used to be the next president of the United States".
“Now describes himself”?!? He’s been tickling ribs with that chestnut since I was a young man.
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