debates

Nathan Newman nathan at newman.org
Thu Oct 12 14:06:47 PDT 2000


----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth Ackerman" <SAckerman at FAIR.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>

-When Lehrer asked the candidates what they would do to help the uninsured -non-elderly, Gore blurted: "I'm against a government-run system." He then -went on a five minute tangent about how he's reinvented government, the -federal workforce is the smallest in years, I'm against big government, etc. -And, oh yeah, I'd expand CHIP. -What happened?

Gore reverted to the cautious, inherently bad candidate he is-- his convention populism was obviously born out of the desperate hole he was in then and now that he got back in the game, he reverted to cautious form.

Unfortunately, it's looking a lot more likely you will lose the bet.

-- Nathan



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