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The McCain Menace
Stopping at nothing to sabotage the Bush White House. Also: Al Gore stays away.
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AL’S LATEST SULK
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Former Vice President
Al Gore
was not satisfied
with the slot he was to receive at the Democratic Leadership
Council’s New York meeting this week, and declined an invitation to
speak at the “National Conversation,” which takes place in
Manhattan today and Tuesday. “Gore was pushing for a ‘keynote’
style speech, a big one,” says a DLC staffer. “But we aren’t doing
it that way, everyone is getting a chance to speak, especially
those with a national reputation. He wasn’t comfortable traveling
in a pack.”
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Gore apparently was further upset that his former running mate, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, would be given what he perceived to be preferential treatment. Unlike Gore, Lieberman has been an active DLC member for years. “Lieberman isn’t getting anything that the other speakers aren’t getting. It’s a speaking engagement, nothing more,” says the DLC-er. “You have to wonder about a guy who is acting like a spoiled child toward a group he needs badly if he is to succeed down the road. It is sort of odd.”
p>On the face of it, it doesn’t appear that Lieberman is getting much of a special spotlight. He’s due to speak on Monday, along with Sens. Tom Daschle and John Kerry . Sen. John Edwards and Rep. Dick Gephardt
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