Al Gore’s unruly party
The Democratic convention this week tried to answer one simple question: can Clintonism survive Bill Clinton?
THE four days of the Democratic convention staged a rite of passage, the political equivalent of the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace or Lenin's Tomb (minus the military precision: this was, after all, the famously disorganised Democrats).
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