The democratic primary fight got ever so slightly nastier last night, and both candidates coughed up a couple of memorable sound bites.
To call Al Gore the bunker candidate and Bill Bradley the professor might just sum up this match. On policy matters — health care, gun control, campaign finance reform, gay rights in the military, real differences between the two are hard to come by.
Is there real battle here over the liberal agenda at a prosperous time in America or is it more of a dustup between management consultants over who’s got a bigger idea and a better approach? After dozens and dozens of town meetings and coffee clatches, are New Hampshire voters seeing anything more than one guy with a connection to Bill Clinton’s Washington and an aloof outsider?
Scoring the first debate of 2000 in the first hour of The Connection.
(Hosted by Christopher Lydon)
Guests:
Michael Kelly, editor of The Atlantic Monthly
Mike Curry, former counsel to the President ’92-’94, and a Democratic candidate for governor of Connecticut in ’92.