>Perhaps you could replay his introduction of Dukakis in '88 -- when his
>rhetorical skills stampeded the convention...
>
>And "one of the best politicians in like the history of the world" was the
>principal reason that Gore lost the election: "State by state, there was
>an all but perfect match in exit polls between Clinton's image and the
>electoral result. Gore took every state where Clinton's "favourability
>rating" was average or above (57 per cent), with the exception of Florida,
>while Bush won every state where it was even a mere point below average,
>except for Oregon and New Mexico (where he lost by less than 0.25 per cent
>of the vote). Clinton was a dead weight on Gore even in Arkansas. For
>these calculations by Thad Beyle, see the Economist, 27 January 2001"
><www.newleftreview.net/NLR24201.shtml>. --CGE
>
>
>On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> Carl Remick wrote:
>>
>> >Articulate? Prolix is more like it. Eight years of incessant
>> >unconvincing jive.
>>
>> What's so hard about admitting that Clinton is one of the best
>> politicians in like the history of the world? He knows a lot and can
>> talk fluently. With Goodman, he responded to a whole series of
>> questions of the sort he'd never been asked. It was an extremely
>> impressive performance.
>>
>> The inability to admit things like that is one of the reasons they
>> keep winning and we keep losing.
> >
>
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