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their public image. Debates of this type, after all, serve less to shed light on serious issues than simply to give the voters a chance to size the candidates up — to get some notion of their personalities by watching them under pressure. And that is no bad thing. In the case of Bush, who is much the better known of the two, his experience in government is widely recognized and respected. And the so called “wimp issue, which was simply the strenuous effort of the liberal media to smear Bush as a dithering nerd, was decisively laid in rest by his impressive acceptance speech at the Republican convention. But there still lingered around. Bush a faintly professorial air, reminiscent of Woodrow Wilson. How worth a man was he? A lot of people who have been trained by Ronald Reagan to enjoy a genially good-humored chief executive wanted to know. In that regard, I thought Bush did extremely well in the debate. Even his minor flubs helped him, because he laughed at them himself. Dukakis, on the other hand, has hitherto suffered from a personality reminiscent of a cigar-store Indian. His typical expression is a sort of impatient frown, occasionally fortified, by some astringently dismissive gessure. But on the night of the debate he must have had a’ 3-bye card in front of him reading, “Smile, Mike, smile! I worked with him on 22 “Advocates” TV Programs In the 1970, and I doubt that he smiled as hiten on all of them put together as he did during that ‘minute debate. “So, Ve say the debate left the two gladiators about where they were before it was held. At that point, of course, Hush was ahead,
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Monessen Valley Independent
Monessen, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Sep 30, 1988
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