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Article: GORE'S PICK WILL TEST TOLERANCE OF RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 9, 2000
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By choosing to run for the White House with Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, Vice President Al Gore came about as close as he decently could to sticking a finger in President Clinton's eye.
Lieberman, a senior Democratic legislator of impeccable personal integrity, was the party's most thoughtful - and most devastating - critic of Clinton's inexcusable behavior during his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
The Republicans never directly mentioned her during their convention, but they didn't have to. They constantly deplored the decline of presidential character and the administration's failure to respect the dignity of the Oval Office. Everybody got the ...