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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Street who wrote (98227)	12/2/2000 9:42:33 AM
From: lawdog	Respond to of 769667

Why stand in the way of a Bush Victory? Who says we still don't have a president-elect? We have not one, but two pseudo-presidents-elect. Next week brings the election's one-month anniversary, which means it is not too early to judge each of their pseudo- presidencies, one of which, like it or not, is going to become real by the time the Groundhog Days of November give way to the official one on the calendar. Alas, non-vintage politicians, like non-vintage wines, do not improve with age. The mediathon surrounding George W. Bush and Al Gore keeps expanding. This week brought a double feature of Bronco chases — who'd have thunk that ballots could cruise highways at gunpoint? — and the first Supreme Court instant replay, outfitted by MSNBC with an N.B.A. countdown clock, Sony Play Station-style animations and ESPN- style Telestrator diagrams. Yet the more the spectacle sprawls, the more its stars look like bit players. Neither man has done anything to alter the voters' withering verdict of Nov. 7: None of the above. The terminally overcaffeinated Mr. Gore has reverted to his debate mode. After his overbearing and over-flagged prime-time sermon to the nation bombed on Monday night, he tried to recoup by inflicting the "relaxed," giggly Al on TV's talk circuit. No longer a robot, he's so hyper he induces motion sickness. As president, he'd not only micromanage the country, perhaps as ineptly as he did his campaign, but constantly be stepping outside himself to micromanage his own personality. He's like the ventriloquist who can't stop moving his lips every time it's the dummy's turn to speak. more nytimes.com Is this better.