Article: The Only Game in Town.(Al Gore's stand on many issues is proving not to be as progressive as that of Bill Bradley's)

For progressives, the primary season has turned into a trail of tears. Bradley is finished, and Gore is moving from state to state, churning up victims. At almost every stop, he produces more weepy testimonials from sufferers of every imaginable ill--cancer, discrimination, school violence, homicidal stalkers, brain damage, and depression.

It's not exactly inspiring. For all his promises to "fight fer you," Gore is no barn-burning populist. Like Clinton, he is the candidate of Wall Street and welfare reform, of unfettered global trade for corporations. And despite all his hankie-wringing, he proposes only tiny, incremental measures to help those left ...

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