My husband and I noticed that YEARS ago, as did a Chicago Tribune columnist, Eric Zorn, who wrote a column entitled something like "HANDS DOWN, GORE IS A LOUSY CLAPPER" (and I'm not kidding). I'm thinking we saw Al reveal this "clap" problem (more like an uncoordinated 4 yr. old) during Clinton's State of the Union address. I cut out the article to save for posterity, but it unfortunately got lost in the last move we made to this newer home. I wrote the reporter a note thanking him for the great column - he responded and told me he caught a LOT of heat for that one. I'm talking YEARS ago - in the first Clinton term - around 1994 or 1995.