GORE READIES TO STATE CASE FOR NEW ERA.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services The Democratic Party seeks to launch a new era today with the adoption of a platform that pushes the Clinton administration's agenda forward on Social Security, Medicare and education and the nomination Thursday of Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore for president. Party strategists acknowledged Monday that they face several big challenges: to build on Clinton's record of ``Prosperity, Progress and Peace,'' as the platform is called, and to free Gore from the shadow of the president to become his own man with his own agenda, as he has promised. ``It's very natural when you have a president going out and a vice president coming in, that you have a period of saying goodbye to the president, and then of welcoming in the new voice,'' Education Secretary Richard Riley Richard Wilson Riley (born January 2, 1933), American politician, was the United States Secretary of Education under President Bill Clinton as well as the Governor of South Carolina, as a member of the Democratic Party. told reporters after speaking to the Georgia delegation Monday morning. ``You can't really think of any way for it not to happen that way.'' In outlining the achievements of his 7 1/2 years as president to convention delegates, Clinton played the role of set-up man to Gore who faces a tricky challenge when he takes the podium podium In architecture, a pedestal on a large scale. It may be any of various elements that form the base of a structure, such as the platform forming the floor and substructure of a Classical temple, a low wall supporting columns, or the structurally or decoratively Thursday night to accept the nomination. He must at once identify himself with the prosperity of the Clinton years and distance himself from the president's moral failings to energize en·er·gize v. en·er·gized, en·er·giz·ing, en·er·giz·es v.tr. 1. To give energy to; activate or invigorate: "His childhood his campaign. That may well have been the deciding factor to choose Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, a man respected for his integrity, to be his running mate running mate n. 1. The candidate or nominee for the lesser of two closely associated political offices. 2. A companion. 3. A horse used to set the pace in a race for another horse. . In selling himself as the nation's best hope to continue the good times of the Clinton era, Gore has adopted a platform that drives the party to the center, where Clinton has led it and where independent voters can be reached, and yet must still excite the party faithful who are far more liberal and could be prone to turn to Green Party candidate Ralph Nader  This page is currently protected from editing until (UTC) or until disputes have been resolved. .
Art Torres, chairman of the California Democratic Party The California Democratic Party is the local branch of the Democratic Party in the state of California. It is presently chaired by former State Senator Arthur Torres. It is the majority party in both chambers of the state Legislature, i.e. the State Assembly and the Senate. , said the key for Gore is to spell out in detail his plans to improve the nation's schools and its health care system, how he will safeguard Social Security and provide prescription drugs prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug, for the elderly. ``This is where we are doing our homework,'' he said confidently. In the days leading up to the start of the Democratic National Convention, party strategists have guided Gore into seizing on what they see as the vulnerability of Texas Gov. George W. Bush's performance at the Republican convention: He promised to solve the same problems but failed to offer concrete proposals. Campaigning Monday in Independence, Mo., the hometown home·town n. The town or city of one's birth, rearing, or main residence. Noun 1. hometown - the town (or city) where you grew up or where you have your principal residence; "he never went back to his hometown again" of President Truman, Gore aggressively drove the point home. ``To give generalities and not give the specifics - that's not the best way to elevate el·e·vate tr.v. ele·vat·ed, ele·vat·ing, ele·vates 1. To move (something) to a higher place or position from a lower one; lift. 2. To increase the amplitude, intensity, or volume of. 3. our democracy,'' the vice president said. Cloaking himself in Truman's ``Give 'em Hell'' mantle, Gore demanded a mandate on ``whether or not we're going to have a prescription-drug benefit'' and promised to achieve universal health care for all ``step by step.'' ``I will take the Medicare Trust Fund and the Social Security Trust Fund and put them in an ironclad ironclad, mid-19th-century wooden warship protected from gunfire by iron armor. The success of the ironclad when first employed by the French in the Crimean War sparked a naval armor and armaments race between France and Great Britain. lock box, with a sign that says, 'Politicians, hands off,' '' he said. His acceptance speech Thursday is widely seen as perhaps his best, if not last, chance to convince voters that he can carry out his plan. A couple of numbers from the latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll starkly illustrate the difficulty Gore faces. Sixty-eight percent of those polled rated Clinton's presidency a success, while 47 percent said there was no chance they were going to vote for Gore. What these numbers suggest is that Gore's real problem is his personal favorableness. That could be due in part to the familiarity - and inevitably, fatigue - that has grown around him over the past eight years, while Bush remains relatively unknown. As the convention opened Monday at Staples Center This article has multiple issues: * Its neutrality is disputed. * It may contain original research or unverifiable claims. * It does not cite any references or sources. , many delegates seemed more convinced that Bush would be a disaster than that Gore would achieve the ``new heights'' needed to beat him. ``We haven't seen a Gore and Lieberman administration yet,'' said California delegate Harold Mayberry, a pastor from Oakland. ``We haven't seen the kind of leadership that these two people bring to the table together.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) no caption (President Clinton) |
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