Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you to smell the defendant.

Oh sure, like lawyers working big skyscrapers and have secretaries, and look at him, he's wearing a belt.

That's Hollywood for you.

Please answer the question, does the defendant's case hold water?

No, the defense is wrong.

Objection overrule.

Oh no no no, no I'm a strener's lip check.

Oh wow, a strener's lip check and I can take some time to reconsider.

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Hello and welcome to opening arguments, this is episode three, and we're going to continue right where we left off with Bush Vigor.

This is part two. Take it away, Andrew.

Let's talk about what Al Gore did, and I should say, as you probably know, Al Gore instead picked Joe Lieberman, who was at the time regarded as one of, rightly so,

one of the most conservative Democrats in the Senate, he actually has a mixed record based on what you want to look at, but certainly was turned out to be a hawk in the roll-up to the Iraq war, turned out to be a moralizer on religious and First Amendment issues, and was the most vocal Democrat criticizing President Bill Clinton for the Monica Lewinsky affair.

Doubleing down on the first mistake, and I would add, I think somewhat fairly, a terrible campaigner, utterly devoid of charisma.

For all of the Al Gore's or robot jokes that people say, Joe Lieberman is worse.

In my view, I cannot envision a worse candidate for the national stage than Joe Lieberman, and somebody who makes it worse in all of the areas where you, I think correctly, identify as problemaries.

Well, I am one hell of a campaign manager, as we're finding out. Now, I think you're helping me along quite a bit, but let's so far I'm winning this campaign.

I'm just killing this campaign. Okay. So now let me deflate that a little bit. How much do I get paid for this campaign? How do they get paid campaign measures?

Well, you are in this case, you are Donna Brazil, so you have managed to parlay this into a career punditry on CNN, and now you're the head of the DNC.

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