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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19SOUTHERN PLAYBOOK
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- FLUENCY COUNTS
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- Now that Clinton's down home, he's rolling out the kind of
- colorful sayings that Dan Rather usually saves up for election
- night. The other day he complained that some folks were
- squealing like a pig caught under a gate. Well, you probably had
- to be there -- and that's the point.
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- CLINTON LUCK...
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- But just when he seemed to be rolling in Southern clover,
- Willie went off half-cocked at an open mike, lambasting Jesse
- Jackson for supposed backstabbing. Now Jesse will likely
- orchestrate a prolonged public apologia from the Son of the
- South -- which, no matter how it goes, may rile black and white
- voters alike.
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- QUAYLE WATCH
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- Will somebody take that boy in hand? Campaigning near
- Atlanta, he made the obligatory stop for local chow, ducking
- into a barbecue joint for a chopped pork sandwich and iced tea.
- But he got it to go -- and he went in his limo.
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- HOW'S THAT AGAIN?
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- Bob Kerrey had the right cast, but he needs better
- writers. Speaking at Atlanta's Spelman College, surrounded by
- uniformed veterans (hint, hint), he declared that if Clinton got
- the nomination, Bush would open him up like a soft peanut. He
- later corrected himself, substituting a boiled peanut, only to
- seem stuck on an unfamiliar Southernism.
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- JESSE'S WAY
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- The man who won't be king likes to play kingmaker -- or at
- least kingbreaker. Last week he announced that almost all the
- Democrats will meet with him on issues like education, health
- and housing. The missing communicant: Bill Clinton.
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- ROOTS, BUCHANAN-STYLE
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- He's Washington, he's urbane. But two of his ancestors
- served in the Civil War. Bingo! Last week Pat brought flowers
- to the small family plot in Mississippi in a timely reminder
- that the Buchanans were on the right side in the War of Northern
- Aggression.
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