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Hillary follows in the tradition of an awkward Al Gore
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 Hillary follows in the tradition of an awkward Al Gore
By Noemie EmeryWhat is one to make of Hillary Clinton, now that her front-running campaign seems to be foundering? Pretty much what one made of Al Gore when his campaign faltered.
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By Noemie EmeryWhat is one to make of Hillary Clinton, now that her front-running campaign seems to be foundering? Pretty much what one made of Al Gore when his campaign faltered.2008 has barely begun, but already it seems quite a lot like 2000. There is a sense of deja-vu-all-over-again as Bill Clinton’s over-ambitious First Lady replays his vice president’s fate. The former VP and the former first lady have remarkable similarities. Both Gore and Hillary wanted to be president for a most of their lives, and with an uncommon ferocity. Each one’s rise through the ranks came about via family members — his father; her husband. Both rose to fame on the wings of Bill Clinton, who is proving to be a mixed blessing for both. Each began a campaign in a position of almost impregnable power, which each one subsequently (and quickly) undermined by errors of judgment and character. In short, what we see here are two campaigns that began with a huge amount of familial and institutional support for candidates who rose exclusively through the power of their respective situations, and who, in the end, are inept politicians and thus in over their heads in a high-stakes campaign.Al Gore was born to a born politician and his ambitious law school-star wife (the Bill and Hillary Clinton of their generation), who determined before he was born that their son would grow up to be president. Al Gore, the elder, arose from rural obscurity though his abundant political talents: he loved to orate, and would make speeches to haystacks in the absence of people. Al Gore Jr. threw up before his first speech, and politics never got easier.Bill Clinton, from a neighboring state and a similar background, had all of Al Sr.’s gifts. “He was a natural, with all the advantages of an extrovert born in a southern culture that emphasized human drama,” Sally Bedell Smith says in her riveting book on the Clintons. “A rare combination of powerful intellect and animal instinct” with a great love for the faux intimacies of retail campaigning, and an uncanny ability to read the emotional tone of his audience and adjust his response to its mood. These talents, of course, eluded his wife and vice president, who had people skills in negative territory, as they proved once they were out on their own.
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