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Article: Want to Avoid Debates? Run for Local Office!(Politics&Opinions)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- September 18, 2000
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Byline: Terry Golway
If you were as good a debater as Vice President Al Gore is said to be, you certainly wouldn't make an open-ended promise, viz. "I will debate my opponent any time, anywhere." This would leave you open to a parry that even a frat boy and his snarling No. 2 man could figure out: "O.K., big guy, let's do an hour, just you and me, at 1 a.m. on the Cartoon Network. And don't say you can't make it."
To refuse this offer would make one seem, well, like a stinking, lying, tax-loving, big-spending, treasonous shakedown artist. It also wouldn't look very good.
Mr. Gore, however, looks like he will come out a winner anyway, for his ...