Posted on 06/30/2002 8:11:12 AM PDT by kattracks
Dang, if his sweating is any indication, whatever you do don't pull his finger.
Total disaster.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Al Gore told top Democratic fund-raisers Saturday that the party's 2000 campaign had too many consultants and that if he runs for president again he will speak from the heart and "let it rip."
The former vice president attended a weekend retreat with about 60 fund-raisers and Democratic Party activists from across the country.
Reporters were barred from the meetings, but aides and others said Gore promised a different kind of campaign than the Democrats ran in 2000, when he lost to George W. Bush.
I promise to be more spontaneous. I will practice very, very hard at being spontaneous, and will be ready to be spontaneous whenever I believe - after careful thought - that it would be appropriate to be spontaneous. Thank you for your support. I mean that most spontaneously.
MESSAGE TO AL:
Hang it up. Get into quilting. You'll feel better. We all will.
And right away we know this is a very important news story, don't we? Uh, don't we? ("News Flash: Al Gore is Perhaps Looking Ahead!")
This title sounds more like a horrible, horrible attempt at poetry than a newspaper headline. Gee, I wonder why?
he made a mistake by allowing himself to be too programmed and controlled by pollsters and consultants in the campaign, and he promised a much different race if he ran in 2004.
Translation: "Hey America, Gore's not really a boring and off-putting personality. He 'allowed himself to be too programmed', yeah that's it! Deep down he's really interesting and likeable, so please please please keep him in mind for 2004. Sincerely, Richard A. Oppel Jr."
Mr. Gore told the group of 60 supporters at a breakfast speech this morning, according to a Gore aide who attended the private session. "To hell with the polls, the tactics, and all the rest. I would have poured out my heart and my vision for America's future."
It's so convenient that Richard A. Oppel Jr. was able to pry this off-the-cuff quote out of that "Gore aide", and with such accuracy too. Good investigative reporting!
"They have refused to allow enough troops from the international community to be put into Afghanistan to keep it from sliding back under control of the warlords."
Leftists reading this must be so conflicted. After all I thought the war was EVIL! EVIL I tell ya! Just an excuse to build a lucrative pipeline through Afghanistan! Food not bombs! Stop Bush's genocidal war!
But... but... but they'd support it if "troops from the international community" also got to do some of the killin'? Well, uh...YEAH... let troops from the international community go in and slaughter some Afghanis! I mean, Gore's saying it (and he even used the phrase "international community"!) so it must make sense.
Mr. Gore had acknowledged privately to friends that his campaign was too wooden.
So self-deprecating, that Gore. We're just lucky we have tireless reporters like Oppel to keep reminding us that Gore's not really as unpleasant as we all thought, and that he knows it, too. Otherwise, we'd all go on disliking the guy! And the nation would be robbed of a great leader. Thanks, Richard A. Oppel, Jr. for doggedly finding out (somehow) what Gore "privately" acknowledges "to friends".
But his comments today were the first public statement that his race relied too heavily on strategists
Uh, Oppel, you're pounding home these talking points a little too often. We already got this message. Gore was unlikable only because he "relied too heavily" on strategists. Got it already!
and suffered from the public's perception that he was not more directly engaging voters
Oppel does quite well with the tricky phrasing required, here. Note to public: Yours was only a "perception". It wasn't true that Gore wasn't "more directly engaging voters", it was only your "perception"!
I mean, what a difficult talking point to have to drive home. Essentially Oppel has to tell his readers that they were Wrong to "perceive" bad things about Gore - that their disliking him was their fault, not his. But he has to say this without sounding condescending or offensive. I think he does pretty well.
Without the advantage of running as the sitting vice president, Mr. Gore, who is writing a book with his wife,
Translation: "Remember, America, this guy's an Intellectual!"
Some of the attendees at this weekend's retreat said they had been urged to attend the gathering.
Amazing, you mean they didn't just go of their own accord without being asked, in awe of Gore's star power?
Mr. Gore's comments were "exactly what everyone in the room wanted to hear," said Chris Korge, a Miami lawyer and businessman.
Heh. Gore told the people in the room he was in at the time exactly what they all wanted to hear.
This isn't really a compliment, is it? Is this Mr. Korge secretly a Freeper? ;)
Many longtime Gore supporters, Mr. Korge said, thought that in the 2000 race "he was too guarded, with too much strategy and too many consultants giving too much advice."
Hmmm, maybe not. Korge and Oppel are obviously reading from the same faxed talking points.
Peter Knight, a longtime top adviser to Mr. Gore,
Hey, why is Oppel quoting this jerk?? This is, after all, one of the guys that Gore "listened to too much" in 2000, right? Boo! Hiss!
emphasized that Mr. Gore's comments "certainly were not an indictment of anyone" on the campaign.
Especially not of Peter Knight.
Mr. Gore, he said, was simply acknowledging that "there were mistakes made
I think this quote is cut-and-pasted into just about every Clinton/Gore story.
"His focus has not been on raising money," said Mr. Knight.
All in all this wasn't a very unpleasant story to read, given that we got this far (third to last paragraph) before reading an obvious self-evident out-and-out lie. Given Gore's track record that's not too bad.
Tipper Gore told supporters that she wanted her husband to run for the presidency [...] This morning, Ms. Schiff, who is an adviser to her father, said she "would love for him to run again."
Always close with the opinion of th'women. Gotta keep reminding the voters of Gore's great appeal to women. Message: He's so sexy, he's such a great husband, such a great father. Drive it home, Oppel.
That's a good boy.
Such a target rich environment.
Was getting rather bored with x42
Fresh Meat!
His name is Albert.
And I am starting a campaign to retire his previous nom de plume of AlGore (kudos Rush)
But his name is
Still looking for masculinity.
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